Collection vintage Czech glass making lampwork tools

Collection vintage Czech glass making lampwork tools. This is a wonderful selection of antique and vintage tools used in the Czech button, bead and art glass industry and for lampworking. With graphite tools which absorb the heat to avoid glass cracking, glass edge and rod cutters and glass rod holders for flame working  A nice collectible part of Czech Bohemian glass making history. With a variety of sizes and mixed materials.

Dating from the early to mid part of the last century these are traditional tools, used in the times prior to full mechanisation. The actual making of the glass at this time, on the whole, remained a cottage industry, in that individuals or families would work from home to supply the companies that would trade the finished items. Each house would have a furnace in which glass rods were heated before the glass items were individually pressed before being polished and cut by hand. Most tools were unique to one glassmaker.