About Those Beautiful Glass Demijohns I Love
posted on 4 January 2012 | posted in
Home and Garden
Throughout Europe it is still possible to find some beautiful examples of glass demijohns. The incredible diversity of shapes, sizes and colours are purely down to the fact they once carried many and varied liquids.
In the past, these hand-blown, glass containers were traditionally made in the same style as the English and European Onion Bottle. This process was to place an onion on the earth floor and blow molten glass through the glass-blowers pipe over the onion, creating an inverted base allowing the glass container to stand freely.
This would then be wrapped in fresh straw and then surrounded by a raffia or wicker basket. You can still see these covers intact to this day, but they are now becoming much rarer to find in perfect condition, as the raffia and wicker deteriorates over time. These have protected the glass demijohns over time which is why today the glass containers have often remained in great, unmarked condition and more importantly unbroken!
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