Hand Made Perfume Bottles

Blown glass is definitely one of the oldest ancientHowever, the technique was not able to reach
techniques of creating hand made perfumeAlexandria until the later half of the the 2nd
bottles. It is believed that the ancient Egyptianscentury B.C where the glass blowing was
are the original inventors of the glass makingintroduced by the Romans. The newest discovery
technique. The production of the metallurgy andgained an increase in production.
the faience contributed a great deal in theBlown glass perfume bottles were made by
manufacturing of glasses for a perfume bottle.sticking a piece of molten glass to the end of a
The earliest Egyptian glass that was introduced toblowpipe and introducing pressurized air the other
us came in a form of small beads and otherend of the pipe. This was entirely done by the
pendants that were found in the area way backblowing of the mouth. The artistic transformation
in the 3000 B.C. Glass was made by melting aof the shapes of the perfume bottles begins to
combination of lime, soda and silica sand. The glassemerge. The shape will then be cut using a copper
is formed through the chemical reaction andwheel and then ground using an emery powder.
interaction of the heated sand and soda whichWhen the perfume bottle has already took its
produces a transparent flowing liquid. When theshape, fine embellishments and other decorations
liquid is cooled down, the glass is formed instantly.were added by pinching the hot glass, adding
The first glass vessels first appeared in Egypthandles and other features. The simple straight
during the middle of the 2000 B.C. They werepatterns could be transformed into a more
made by molding on a core that is made of sandintricate and complex shapes that adds up to the
and mud to form the interior of the vessel. Thebeauty of the perfume bottle. When the shape is
core is then submerged to a very viscous moltenalready formed, coloring and hand painting takes
glass; the core will then be scraped out when theplaces. It is then followed by placing the perfume
vessel has cooled down. During that time, thebottles in a furnace that has a very hot
glass was referred to as an artificial semi-stonetemperature in order for the color to set in the
which was quite a costly novelty item. Theglass making it permanent. After which, the
aristocrats during that time did not own any glassbottles are left to cool down before they are
workshop since it was a royal monopoly. Whenused.
the decline of the royal power ended, the NewToday, the blow glass products still undergo the
Kingdom ended prompted a stop on thesame process the way the ancient create them.
production of glass for a certain period of time.No other primitive tools were added to the original
The revolutionary invention of the blown glassones.
then took place in Syria in the 1st century B.C.