Handmade one of a kind glass icicle ornaments.
I come from upstate New York and I live for snow and ice. I've been making my own magical winter wonderland for years.
I studied hot glass at Edinburgh College of Art and have been so fortunate to have studied flameworking with an older generation of master glass blowers, sadly no longer with us in Lauscha, Germany.
The icicles are based on an old ornament from Lauscha, the home of flameworking and place that F. W. Woolworth went to first bring Christmas ornaments to the United States in the mid-1800s. They are packaged with their history on the box.
The small icicles come boxed with this label on the back of every box:
WHEN F.W. WOOLWORTH FIRST BROUGHT CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS TO THE UNITED STATES IN THE MID-EIGHTEEN HUNDRED’S, HE GOT THEM IN LAUSCHA, GERMANY, A SMALL TOWN IN WHAT IS NOW EX-DDR THURINGIA. WHEN I FIRST STARTED FLAMEWORKING, THE FIRST THING I DID WAS GO TO LAUSCHA TO STUDY. I WAS QUITE FORTUNATE TO STUDY WITH AN ENTIRE GENERATION OF MASTER GLASSBLOWERS NOW NO LONGER WITH US. THIS ICICLE ORNAMENT IS BASED ON AN OLD LAUSCHA ORNAMENT AND REFERENCES NOT ONLY THE BIRTHPLACE OF ORNAMENTS, BUT ALSO THE HOME OF FLAMEWORKING. EACH ICICLE IS ONE OF A KIND AND MADE FROM BOROSILICATE GLASS IN SCOTLAND BY CARRIE FERTIG.
The icicles are individually priced at £20 each, but if you buy a dozen, you only pay for eleven, so you get twelve different icicles individually boxed with their history for £220. I box them individually so if you give any away as gifts, everyone still has the story.