Image: Vase with Female Head. Eva Englund, Designer; Orrefors, Maker. CMoG 99.3.7.
Hello! Thank you for your question. We do have information on the graal technique.
Online Research Guide
CMoG Guest Artist Demonstrations:
- Denise Stillwaggon Leone
- Micke Johansson (Amphitheater Hot Shop)
- Micke Johansson (2300°)
Articles*
*Links are to library catalog records
- Beadle, The Venerable. “The Bead Column: Graal Beads.” Glass Line 12, no. 4 (Dec. 1998/Jan. 1999): 14-17.
- Cox, Gill Mannings. “Graal.” The Guild of Glass Engravers Newsletter, special issue (Autumn 2001): 10-15.
- Grenier, Frank. “Graal as I See It.” The Guild of Glass Engravers Newsletter, special issue (Autumn 2001): 16-18.
- Hoerr, Brett. “Creating an Encalmo Graal Vase on the Lathe.” Glass Line 21, no. 3 (Oct./Nov. 2007): 24-29.
- Mickelsen, Robert A. “A Brief Overview of Graal.” The Flow 4, no. 1 (2006): 62-70.
- Schneider, Rick. “From the Chop Shop to the Hot Shop.” The Glass Art Society Journal (2012): 120-121.
- Zirnsack, Arthur., and Dreutler-Zirnsack, Hanne. “Demonstrations: Swedish Graal Technique.” The Glass Art Society Journal (1997): 72-73.
Borrowing Library Materials
The Rakow Research Library will lend designated books from its collection and will send copies of articles requested by other libraries. Your library can request items through the OCLC WorldShare Interlibrary Loan (ILL) system or by direct request through email at ill@cmog.org. For more information, please see our ILL policies and procedures.
More extensive lists of resources are available upon request. Please let us know if we can be of further assistance via Ask a Glass Question (https://libanswers.cmog.org/), email (rakow@cmog.org), phone (607-438-5300), or text (607-821-4029).
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