The Glass of Frederick Carder by Paul Vickers Gardner (1976, Hardcover)

You might think that only a collector of antique art glass would be interested in this book...

but you'd be wrong.

Sure, it's loaded with information about Frederick Carder. It tells all about his life history...

How he came to America from Great Britain, and how he went on to start the Steuben Glass Company, which later became part of the famous Corning Glass Works.

The book includes loads of photos of Carder's glass works, and it details his experiments in all sorts of different glassworking techniques - blown glass, lost-wax casting, etched glass, flashed glass, and more.

If you're a collector, especially a collector of Steuben glass, you already understand why you might want to own this book...

But, if you're a glass blower, you need to know about the 7,000 line drawings from Carder's sketchbooks and catalogs.

That's right! SEVEN THOUSAND drawings. Every possible shape and form that Carder and his artisans came up with during his 80 years of working with glass...

And they're all here... right in the back of the book. Page after page after page of Carder's own creations.

Have you ever stepped into your glassblowing studio with no idea what you're going to make? You just hope that once you start to gather some molten glass onto your blowpipe that you'll get inspired.

You hope that the muse will strike, and you'll come up with an idea...

And somethimes it works. Sometimes you do get an inspiration and you make beautiful things.

But then there are those times when it just doesn't happen. You end up making the same old tired shapes you've been blowing for years... the same old boring stuff...

But if you have a copy of this book in your studio library, all you have to do is flip it open to the 7,000 drawings and pick one... any one... or maybe you'll get a notion to combine a couple of them (or even 3 or 4) into something entirely new...

Something that even Frederick Carder never thought of.

Go ahead... get inspired... give your muse a hand.

Look for THE GLASS OF FREDERICK CARDER.

BUY YOURSELF A COPY TODAY.