When Keren Hoover was 15, her parents returned from a trip to Italy with three paperweights for her. The small glass orbs were millefiore-style paperweights, one of the most popular designs, holding a ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Rare paperweights, many from the 19th century and held in ...

A paperweight can be both functional and a natural or manmade work of art. A paperweight can be a favorite rock found on the beach to hold down papers on your desk. It can be a chunk of round glass or ...

Chris Buzzini makes lampwork paperweights, encasing tiny glass flowers inside more glass. Oregon City’s Chris Buzzini keeps the 150-year-old craft of lampwork paperweights alive. These crystalline ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In the 1700s, paperweights made from ...

4.6 x 5.9 x 5.9 cm. (1.8 x 2.3 x 2.3 in.) ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In the 1700s, paperweights made from ...

Renowned glass artist Rollin Karg’s mid-life artistic career started small. It began as a backyard venture in a 17x20 garage in Wichita – allowing him to scratch a creative itch and probably a genetic ...

IT’S FUNNY WHICH IMAGES remain imprinted on our minds, like vivid snapshots, for years and even decades after we’ve first seen them. They can be of anything—the soft weave of a childhood blanket, a ...

Jane Huey has collected paperweights since she was 13, when her grandmother gave her three of the colorful glass orbs as a gift. “They’re so intricate and so delicate,” says the now-65-year-old Ms.