Cactus Paperweight Winter Holidays and 12" wide

and 12" wide

25" opening at the top

The molten glass is then pressed into the pattern of the mould

Andrews Episcopal Church in New Bedford MA

offset by the rich amber glass on the back

Cactus Paperweight Winter Holidays and 12" wideThis floral paperweight was handmade in Massachusetts by Clinton Smith, in the time honored tradition of Millefiori glass. The name millefiori is Italian for "thousand flowers". Millefiori glass is made through a multi step process that involves creating glass rods with colorful patterns, cutting and arranging them, and then fusing them into a final product, all by hand and with painstaking precision and artistry. This exquisite and entirely unique