Specialised Work

At Twists Glass Studio we make our specialised production to museum standard.  These designs have evolved throughout the decades and are usually more technically difficult pieces to make.

They are production so there will be pieces made that are the same or similar, there will also be pieces with changes of colouration within the cane work. I spent many years working in production, sometimes in teams of 9 men to produce over a thousand items a day, and so I quite like the idea of a hundred Zanfirico owls all being coloured differently!

  • A tear formed from merletto canes. Height 35cm, Width 16cm, Depth 7cm approximately.

  • Merletto cane work apples and pear with leaf. Sizes and prices vary accordingly. Apple from Height 12.5cm-18.5cm. Pear from Height 16cm-24cm approx.

  • A smaller version of our popular "Patch" series formed only using zanfirico canes. Apple Height 13cm, Width 10.5cm. Pear Height 16cm, Width 9.5cm approximately.

  • Without leaf.

  • With leaf, in cane patchwork design 2017.

  • Weaver Fruit, This is an extremely difficult technique to master with the zanfirico cane weaving between the murine. Apple Ht 12cm, Pear Ht 15.5cm approximate.

  • Incalmo top and base with a zanfirico and murine centre, different colour available.

  • Zanfirico and murine blown vessel with an incalmo top. Sizes approximately Height 30cm, Width 19cm.

  • Zanfirico and murine blown vessel with an incalmo top.

  • Zanfirico and murine blown vessel with an incalmo top.

  • Zanfirico and murine blown vessel with an incalmo top.

  • Zanfirico and murine blown vessel with an incalmo top.

  • Zanfirico bowls with incalmo top and foot.

  • Basic tessera bowls.

  • Tessera. More pieces made using tesserae tiles.

  • More tessera pieces.

  • Reticello bowl on hollow foot with paperweight as central focal point.

  • Picture cane Murrine

  • Every component was made while our glass melting furnace was turned off in an experiment to see just how much could be made this way. This was one of the pieces I included in our archive.

  • We make many one of one type perfume bottles using cane techniques.

  • This is an image of my Great Aunt Florrie. I used her photo and retro a fili cane slices to make the picture.

  • Closed bowls containing Murrine of various composition with reticello incalmo section, and torsade rim.