Pukeberg hotshop

The hotshop here at Pukeberg...

Artist studios at the end of the building

Entrance to the Design Archive and Pukeberg glassworks

Hotshop (assistant Peter and gaffer Micke)

Main gloryhole and color oven

Warmer with automatic pipe turner. 

Small gloryhole.  It only gets used on occasion and mainly by students.  The bottom is completely filled with glass, as they have no drain holes in their gloryholes!

Furnace

Student tool cabinet. Mainly Essemce tools or something.

Assistant's bench.  And sitting area.

Micke and Peter

Demoing a plate for the class.

Pukeberg website

Me blowin' the glass in Sweden :)

On occasion, our class gets time to blow from 8am-10am in the mornings.

Laundry Day

Everyone in the apartment complex shares the common laundry room in the basement.  Some of the laundry contraptions down there were news to me!

Laundry room

Sink and  trolleys

Iron and drying cabinet

Drying cabinets are common in European laundromats, especially in Swedish Tvättstugas.  They are designed to expedite the drying of items that are unsuitable for a traditional clothes dryer.

Mangle (wringer)

Electrolux-Wascator

Washer

Large sink

Dryer

Lock scheduling board

Orrefors, Målerås and Skruf - Part 3

 Skrufs Glassworks, located in Scruv, was started in 1897.

Small blow room

Front of the annealer.

Throughout the day the conveyor belt slowly moves the glass through the length of the annealer.

And out the other end.

Sales room

Gold and platinum glass paints

Skrufs glasbruk website

Orrefors, Målerås and Skruf - Part 2

Next we drove to Målerås, population 300, where Mats Jonasson Målerås glaswork is located.  Founded in 1890, the company is today the largest privately owned glassworks. 

Blowing room

Casting room

Pouring

Picking and torching out bubbles

Painting room.  Mats Jonasson specializes in sandblasted and painted glass work

Working station

Sandblasting resists



A multitude of sandblasters 

The first gallery we visited at the factory displayed work by the owner himself, Mats Jonasson.  Mats Jonasson began working as an engraver at the glassworks in 1959.  



The following gallery displayed the glassworks' collection of silver and crystal jewellery, inspired by mythology, fairy tale and reality.

Another gallery...



They also produce urns and tombstones...

The final gallery room...

Mats Jonasson Målerås website