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The work

From bottle to cup

Bottles leave 900 South as waste. They leave this shop as cups, bowls, and lamps. Here is the path in between.

Collect
PICKUP
  • •Amber, green, and clear bottles from restaurants on 900 South
  • •Rinse, sort, and cut the necks
  • •Nothing leaves in a batch larger than twelve
  • •Melt the cullet until it is a gather
  • •Keep a streak of the bottle's original color
Melt
FURNACE
  • •Blow cups, bowls, and lamp shades
  • •Hold a piece if someone wrote ahead
  • •Anneal overnight in the lehr
  • •Grind the rims
Blow
BENCH
  • •Put the rest on the shelf for Saturday
  • •Cool slowly so the glass does not crack
  • •Check each rim by hand
  • •Sign the base with a diamond bit
Anneal
LEHR
  • •Wrap in newspaper from the same restaurants
  • •Open Thursday at noon
  • •Twelve pieces on the shelf, never more
  • •A cup that remembers the bottle it was
  • •Write ahead if you want one held

Northglass

Glass blown from the bottles the city throws away.

Visit

  • 418 South 700 West, Salt Lake City
  • (801) 555-0148
  • studio@northglass.example

Business Hours

Thu-Sat, noon to six

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