The glass blown Mexican brought it the Spaniards at the beginning of the century XVI, where the aztec natives brought it in a very singular way that we adopt it as mexican craft. Thanks to the ability of the hands
mexicans, unique styles have been created in their forms, sizes and colors that each piece is classified as only, because no piece is same in weight, it forms final color distribution, they are elaborated by hand.

The material that is used is glass "recycled" pieces of bottles that they recover of the garbage they melt the glass to 1,100 centigrade grades.

 

The tools are identical to those of 5 centuries ago, the only thing that is the technology of "ovens" for their foundry had changed, fuel, burners, templadores, among other. An artisan in blown glass, to end up being teacher finisher, slow from 6 to 8 years to end up dominating the technique of the glass completely. The process: to make an article a team of 8 artisans it is needed on the average. The spheres are worked with torch and glass bars, which the artisan goes giving form and size wanted when incorporating glasses of several colors.
The glass blown Mexican is only, and it is from Mexico for everybod, for the world.

 

This art is Spanish of origin and it was transmitted to the Mexican artisans during the colonial time.
The glass blown Mexican is recognized worldwide by its quality, its color and its design.
Our red glass possesses the excellence in quality, combining more than 16 chemical elements for its production.
We also take advantage of already the glass manufactured when fusing it and to create our pieces, contributing this way, with the mediating nature the glass recycled.

In his concurred craft workshop, Jaime works with glass of waste or, in special cases, produces it from sands, carbonates, feldspars, and limestones.  The pedacería of this material that is going to utilize melts it in an oven at more than 1200 celsius degrees of temperature, of where liquid leaves and gummy, of uniform appearance and with a watery green color that the corrects utilizing the famous one "soap of the glassmakers", dioxide of manganese, which causes oxidations couples. 

 

To give color to the glass, adds to the mass diverse substances: gold, selenio or oxide of copper for the red tone; oxide crómico ferrous for the green one; trisulfuro of antimonio or silver borate for the yellow one; dioxide of manganese for the violet one; oxide cobaltoso for the blue one; phosphate cálcico, fluoride cálcico or oxides of tin, zirconium, titanium or antimonio for the effects opalinos. 

 

Some colors as the blue cobalt, the emerald green one, the amethyst or purple, the aquamarine and the amber, obtains them for oxidation, other on the other hand, by thermal effect of unforeseen.  To obtain the difficult red one, melts the transparent glass with oxide cuproso in the pipe (crucible of clay) hermetically closed to one 900 degrees of temperature.  When already it is done broth is added him the gold and covers itself so that melt again.  The glass acquires the alive tone of the red one to the "to be went bad" when is exposed to the atmosphere.  The "aparazonador" (first industrious that intervenes) takes with the cane to blow (pipe of iron with mouthpiece in an extreme and an olive or pomel in the other) a tries or small shows of liquid glass to test the state of the mass melted.  Upon removing the glass of the oven, this returns plastic, gummy and incandescent.  When it is in its point, a lump is taken or bebente that will constitute the base of the objects.  In this step the operative should be very fast, therefore he will work with the hardening of the commodity, according to he go chilling. 

 

The following process is to burnish the compact glass on the thick piece of iron to correct imperfections and standardized the surface.  Later it comes the blown with the cane, that revolves with the hand so that a species of bowl be done.  When an oval is formed or sphere, the piece is held for the center with the blind pipe or puntel that has a piece of dull glass, is introduced again in the oven to heat and is left supported in the tripié to mollify it.  Later it continues the work of the finisher, that with turns and fly around, adds you roast and other additional decorations.  Once the piece has been finished, is carried to the oven to temper and is left 24 hours so that chill. 

 

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