Bohemian Art Glass and Gifts Crystal Collection is pleased to introduce you to our wonderful glass studios that continue to use the ancient art of hot-shaped and decorated glass techniques to create original contemporary Bohemian Art Glass. The pictures of artisans working in the glass studio show furnaces, clothing and glassblowing techniques that have not significantly changed in 600 years.
Bohemia is in the crossroads of Europe near mineral rich mountains.
North Bohemia, the land of glassworks, is located in Northern Czech Republic, north of Prague between the German and Polish Borders. Glass is made from a mixture of fluxes, ash, oxide of silicas and stabilizers, and melted at very high temperatures. Bohemian glass was originally thought to be magical and Prague was a magical city. Bohemian glass has been famous worldwide since the eighteenth century, although local production started in the fourteenth century. Glass making schools developed in Bohemia , later Czechoslovakia.