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Traditional quality, contemporary designs, unusual colors
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Traditional quality, contemporary designs, unusual colors |
Cut crystal ---give a gift that will be remembered A 50th Birthday gift that's unnusual is tough, but we've done the footwork for you and found the best crystal available in the heart of Europe. Looking for a gift not everyone gives? What better choice than art crystal for that extra-special gift? You simply can't go wrong with crystal Selections of wine glasses -our experience tells us that handmade crystal is widely appreciated by both men and women. Consider a half-dozen (or, better yet, a full dozen) exquisite wine glasses. Affordable selections Choices from our monthly special will help to save even more. Select from our twelve times yearly chance to save $20 on your gift choice. All our crystal comes directly from workshops in the Czech Republic. It is then shipped to you by air, directly from Prague. Give an heirloom Your grandmother may have treasured Bohemian crystal she inherited. With a little bit of care, crystal, especially high lead crystal, can last for many generations. The gift of kings for more than six centuries, this enduring tradition of craftsmanship assures you've made the right choice. Hand made always shows you care Every piece in our collection is made entirely by hand, by craftsmen who trace their crystal working ancestry back through generations, often in the same villages where they now live and work. Many of these villages exist primarily for the glassworks and the tradition of glassworking is even today handed down from generation to generation. Young and old, in leather aprons or shorts and running shoes, all reflected in the glare of the kiln. There's still time to make a special choice We can have your gift choice at your door, shipped directly from the Czech Republic, in a matter of approximately a five to ten days. Feel Bohemian delivers old world craft on a new world schedule. Central European (Czech) glass can be found in Corinthian excavations from the 11th and 12th centuries. These primitive glass styles spread through Italy, east to Istria and.north to Germany and Holland. At that time, the production of arts and crafts ceased to be the sole preserve of monasteries. Glassworks began to be built in forests, as workers required vast quantities of wood to feed their furnaces. The darkest and most extensive forests were colonized in this hungry quest. These glassworks produced "forest glass" of a green shade, caused by imperfect refining of raw the materials, potash and quartz sand. Potash was gleaned from the ashes of burned wood and used as a melting material instead of soda.
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