Reading about David's fish, and talk of friggers (fish-friggers? :roll: ) reminded me I have a fish in one of my cabinets! It's a rather different species, but it is made of glass so I reckon its entitled to appear on this board :wink:
http://tinypic.com/28p40j I call it the 'knitted' fish :lol: because that's what it looks like to me. It's not very well-balanced - as you can see, it can't stand up properly but always falls forward onto its nose, poor thing! :roll:
My question is not who made it; it is obviously a bit of lamp-work, though interesting IMHO because it is probably not less than 50 years old and possibly as much as 100. I inherited it, along with a whole cabinet full of up-to-100-year-old 'tourist tat', from a much-travelled great aunt.
So ... what I would like to know is - what is the technique called where a glassworker 'knits' with strands of glass like this? I have seen baskets and suchlike made of glass in this way - though never another fish :lol:
Leni