| Blown glass, a very ancient technique, is
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| | Naucratis.The revolutionary invention of
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| the oldest among the handicrafts. It is
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| | glass-blowing took place, probably in
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| said by some, that ancient Egyptians were
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| | Syria, during the 1st century BC, though
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| the original inventors of glass making
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| | the technique did not reach Alexandria
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| techniques. Production of metallurgy and
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| | until the latter half of the following
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| faience helped a great deal in the
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| | century when it was introduced by the
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| manufacture of glass afterwards. The
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| | Romans. The new discovery widely
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| earliest Egyptian glass known to us was
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| | increased production and glass then
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| in the form of small beads and pendants
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| | ceased to be either a rarity or an
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| found in sites dating back to the 3rd
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| | upper-class prerogative.Blown glass
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| millennium B.C. At that time glass was
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| | vessels were created by sticking a piece
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| made by melting a combination of
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| | of molten glass onto one end of a
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| silica-sand, lime, and soda. The
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| | blowpipe and through the other end
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| interaction of the heated soda and the
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| | introducing pressurized air into the
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| hot sand formed a transparent flowing
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| | pipe. This was done by mouth blowing. At
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| liquid, which was then permitted to cool
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| | that stage, the art of transformation
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| forming glass.The first glass vessels
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| | into attractive shapes began. It was then
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| appeared in Egypt in the middle of the
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| | cut with a copper wheel and ground with
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| 2nd millennium B.C. These were made by
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| | emery powder. After the vessel took its
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| the technique of molding on a core made
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| | shape, decorations were added by pinching
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| of mud and sand to form the shape of the
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| | the hot glass, adding handles or other
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| vessel's interior. Then the core was
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| | features to it, changing simple straight
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| submerged into viscous molten glass. Once
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| | patterns into more intricate ones. After
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| the vessel was cold, the core had to be
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| | the coloring and hand painting process
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| scraped out.At that time, glass was
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| | was completed, the bottles were put into
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| regarded, as an artificial semi-precious
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| | a furnace with a very high temperature to
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| stone and it was a costly novelty
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| | set the color on the glass so that it is
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| material, most likely the aristocracy
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| | permanent. Afterwards, the bottles needed
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| owned no glass workshops since it was a
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| | to be left out to cool. Then they were
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| royal monopoly.The decline of royal power
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| | ready.Nowadays, blown glass products are
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| after the end of the New Kingdom put a
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| | still made the same way our ancient
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| stop to glass production for a time. Not
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| | ancestors used to make them. No extras
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| till the Greco-Roman Period did new
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| | are used but the very primitive tools
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| Egyptian glass centers arise in the
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| | used 7000 years ago and the golden
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| Hellenistic cities of Alexandria and
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| | fingers of the Egyptian craftsmen.A.
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