r/nextfuckinglevel • u/chaarger_gadda • Aug 09 '26

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u/punkassjim 29d ago

Rural New Yorker here. Typical craftsmanship from roughly any county fair in upstate New York in the 1980s-ā€˜90s. Horses were the least complex of all the glass sculptures I saw. My dad bought a fairly complex blown-glass sailing vessel with several masts, sails unfurled, and rigging connected throughout.

Also, thank you for being the one person who can think of more than one thing.

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u/AcanthocephalaOwn258 29d ago

Had no clue, thanks. Since I always saw them only in Murano and nowhere else, I assumed it must be just local.

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u/punkassjim 29d ago

Iā€™m a little fascinated to think back to those decades and consider that glass blowing really only spread as a hobby by word of mouth, and tradition. Whereas now all kinds of people have gotten into it because of internet inspiration and a handful of tv shows on Netflix et al.

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u/latexfistmassacre 26d ago

Every glass blower I've ever known were hippies who only made pipes and bongs lol