I have a new project in mind inspired by a number of factors. The first one is the fragments of blue glass that I find at the bottle tip. Blue glass is pretty rare I have realised.
The second was seeing the melted glass bottle in Spain last year and realising I could produce a glass block, with the help of Nacho and his kiln. Talking to a friend Howard, he thought it would make an interesting three part film: gathering materials; making the glass block; knapping the handaxe.
That is how I ended up at Nacho’s this afternoon smashing the glass fragments I had previously collected and sorted, and making them into easily meltable pieces. Nacho, for his part has produced some clay moulds to get the shape, but as clay is porous the glass would bind to the clay. The aluminium food trays are to line the clay mould and stop the glass sticking.
This is obviously all theoretical at this stage, anyway, after putting the glass into a carrier bag and hitting it repeatedly with a lump hammer we managed to get one blue glass container filled.
After that we did a milk glass, and then clear glass container. And after that we went back to the bottle tip to get some materials for brown and green handaxes as well. There is a lot that can go wrong with this project, so let’s see how it goes!
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