TK Lede Each year, 1.3 million people travel to Djurgærden, one of Stockholm’s 14 islands, to visit Skansen,
Some head to the AMUSEMENT PARK, others to the NATIONAL PARK, and TK NUMBER spend the day in SKANSEN,
On Stockholm’s TK island,
1. 350.000 visitor
2. I’m nearly born in the glasswork shop, yes I was her with my grandfather and grandmother, started a 1984 full time, I was in Orrefors and at Skansen.
3. Very important it’s a traditional in Sweden, good glassblower in a good combination with designers.
4. We can blow small windows here at Skansen ( the end of making it in Sweden was in the 1930 but we want to try again, then we have cooperation with a large glassblowing team in Germany, the are going to blow on order from us larger ones like 100×85 cm. Here on Skansen we have a lot of old houses ho needs mouth-blown windows and also a lot of other old buildings in Stockholm and for private people ho has old porches, we can help custumers to cut them to an we have courses in how to renovate old windows.
I will come back to you as soon as we started.
5. My grandfathers bother was unemployed 1930—- an sat in a basement and by hand make the constructions ant took the train up to Stockholm and the glassblowers bowed them they are and was very popular, he even exported them to USA in early 50-s. We make them also on orders with different designs.
6. Moose’s, small vases( large ,small skolvasen ), daily use glass like pictures, drinking glass and ornaments.
glass as living history in stockholm, site of worlds oldest outdoor museum
background
- world’s oldest outdoor museum
- founded by Artur Hazelius, a Stockholm native, who wanted to highlight the way people lived in the latter half of the nineteenth century
- as Sweden industrialized and moved away from its agricultural roots, Hazelius began collection things, ranging from utensils and clothing to furnitures and tools, that would eventually be showcased in the TK buildings in Skansen, a TK-acre park on the city’s NAME island. area: about 300,000 m2
During the expansive 1890s Skansen’s activities were organized in accordance with aims that Hazelius was later to enumerate: “But the Skansen open-air mu-seum has much greater diversity and still greater tasks… It seeks more to be a living museum, a museum that does not merely exhibit buildings and furnishings, tools of very varying sorts, memorials… Along side all of that it seeks to do much more: to present folk life in living brushstrokes.”
stockholm glasswork shop
The Stockholm Glassworks here at Skansen was built in 1936, but had already started three years earlier in a basement at Södermalms Square at Slussen. Old drawings of a glassworks in Johannisholm – in Venjans socken in Dalarna – from the late 1700s (closed in 1855), stood as a model for the build.
Stockholm Glassworks was driven by factory Ture Berglund and his wife Lily in 1933-1980. Then took his daughter Marianne, with her husband, Göran Hammar, over the control. Today – their granddaughter,Karin Hammar – a third generation glasscraftsman, is in charge.
vases, glassware, knicknacks, glass cakes, paperweights, display pieces
photos: AB Stockholms Glassworks
Stockholms Glassworks specialty – “krackelering” (cracking) at 700 degrees the glass is dipped in water – superficial decoration
karin hammar
ola andersson
sara blomkvist
http://www.stockholms-glasbruk.se/eng/index_eng.php
culture angle – dalahäst – the horses?
Glassblowing with “Hyttsill” (Hut-herring)
The Skansen lantern was first produced in 1933. Now you can give it away as a gift! Buy it finished in the color you want, or give away the shell and let the birthday child choose the color and see the production of the lantern on site. Price from 1900 SEK. Call for more information about the gift/booking!