Blown Glass Design: Decoration Methods With Colour Powders

The article describes one of the most popular in the world and almost unknown in the domestic glass manufacturingmethod of blown glass decoration with colour powders. The basic properties, conditions of use and storage, interactionprinciples and methods of application are highlited in the article. Several ways of decorating of blown glass pieces, basedon the three glass powder manufacturer products are proposed. Proposed methods are effi cient for industrial productionas far as they are not resourceful and time-consuming. The detailed description of several common techniques with coloredpowders used by the Ukrainian Galician Glass factory is presented as exemplifi ed by several its patterns.