Connemara Blue

It’s a Family Thing

Father & Daughter: Ben & Tash Crow

How We Make Our Products

Our customers love when we tell them how these products are made when they are in our shop. They are amazed by the intricacies and details. How every piece is cut to fit exactly with precision. How the kiln melts the pieces together. How we layer the details of copper wire, crushed pieces and other secrets to create layers and texture in the final product. Hopefully this will give you a sense of how each piece comes into being and how much we love what we do ❤️

All our products are handmade using coloured glass which is heated and fused to create each piece in our workshop directly behind our shop in Clifden, Co. Galway. We have put together a suitable selection available for our online shop. You can see how each piece is made with love ❤️

The Thrill of the Snap

The basic unit of our glass art starts as a large sheet of glass which come in a huge selection of colours. We use a glass cutter like you would use a glass cutter to cut window glass – just a toughened steel wheel on the end of a stick. To cut the glass, it’s actually not cutting, really. It’s more like scratching. So we scratch the glass and then break it using a pair of pliers. And that’s really the characteristics of the glass that we exploit when we’re making the pieces to create our designs.

As you gently apply pressure with the pliers along the cut, it is the sound of that snap when the glass breaks that really got us both hooked on creating these pieces.