Tärnsjö Tannery

MADE-TO-ORDER PRODUCT

Genuine hand-blown window glass has long been in short supply in the building industry.

Lots of more or less bad imitations have seen the light of day; Antique glass, renovation glass, restoration glass, machine antique, genuine antique glass, cultural glass. The names have been as misleading as the products have been dubious.

For example, the imitation glass has often been too thick. The glass has also been too heavy. Thick glass weighs a lot and wears down the hinges. The glass has been machine-made, giving it an artificial appearance, often for example with one side completely flat and the other with a ‘hand-blown’ texture. The supply of window glass has simply been driven by commercial, not cultural, interests and the result has been the same.

We have been working for 13 years to develop a new way of making window glass. Only now are we 100% satisfied with the result. We have worked exclusively with extremely skilled glassblowers from the old tribe.

We now have window panes in stock that are made using exactly the same technique as before, i.e. blown by hand (mouth-blown) and using the cylinder method. You can’t tell our new glass from the old, because there is no difference!

Every pane of glass is, of course, individual. There are all the typical irregularities in the glass, such as small blisters, streaks and everything that goes with hand-blown glass. And because the sand used to make the glass is not 100% pure, the glass is not completely “white” as it used to be.

In our white glass, for example, there is a slight tendency towards gray. The only thing that distinguishes our new glass from the old is actually – age! Well, one more thing, the new panes are not scratched, as old ones tend to be after centuries of window cleaning and careless cleaning.

Send us an email, [email protected], with the number of squares and dimensions and we will get back to you with a quote for price and delivery time.