HISTORY OF THE FUSING
Origin: towards 1500 before J.C
Disappearance: towards 500 after J.C
Rebirth: 20th century This technique was already practised 1500 years BC in a manufacture of objects out of glass.
At the beginning of our era, it was replaced by blowing. Glass worked with the oven reappeared in Europe around 1870.
Around 1880 an approach: The French Henri Cross-country race rediscover molten glass (fusion of powder or granules of glass in a mould).
in the Beginning of the 20th century with the U.S.A: – Experimentation FrĂ©dĂ©rick on fusion glass. – Small glassmaking, disseminated on the territory, specialized in flat glass, continue researches. In 1935: They control the colour, the phases of dilation and retraction and lead finally to glass with fusion such as we know it today. About 1940: First artistic achievements, in particular those of Michael and Frances Higgins. Since 1980: The technique of the fusing is widespread almost in the whole world.