Making Marbles By Hand

Blow torches are used in the making of glass marbles.

Making marbles by hand.

Mass production made marbles much cheaper to make allowing the price to drop from about one penny each to a bag of 30 marbles for the same price. Germany came to dominate the marble industry in the 19th and 20th century. Handmade glass art marbles made by contemporary glass artists in the u s a. The country s hand made marbles were the finest in the world and are sought after by collectors today.

At the marble man in woodford va jack and sue always has glass marbles in various colors styles and sizes on hand. We stock machine made marbles in a multitude of colors and designs in sizes from pee wees to 50mm. Cracked marbles are really beautiful and they are super easy to make if you want to do the yourself. In the late 1800 s glass marble making began to shift into american as europe s finest craftsmen left home to seek a new life in the new world.

A marble is a small spherical toy often made from glass clay steel plastic or agate these balls vary in size. The asterisks indicate marbles that were made during demonstrations at the moon marble company. Most commonly they are about 13 mm 1 2 in in diameter but they may range from less than 1 mm 1 30 in to over 8 cm 3 in while some art glass marbles for display purposes are over 30 cm 12 in wide marbles can be used for a variety of games called marbles. We wanted marbles that we had as children like bumble bees cubscouts puries and so on.

These marbles didn t have pontils the nubs left over from where the rod was severed from the glob so they rolled straighter in the game of marbles. The machine was an improvement upon shaping marbles entirely by hand over a heatsource. You can make these lovely cracked marbles with any glass marbles that you have on hand and if you do them in different sizes use some of those really large ones you can make jewelry that is so unique. For more information regarding our products get in touch with us.

You can count on us to provide you with our products in small or large quantities in any mix you need. The store is located near the intersection of k 32 hwy 7 in bonner springs ks.