Glass Ships in Bottles by Ayako Tani
Glass Ships in Bottles at the Scottish Maritime Museum tells the remarkable story of highly skilled scientific glassblowers who were made redundant following the decline of heavy industry in the 70s.
About Glass Ships in Bottles by Ayako Tani
Glass Ships in Bottles has been curated by Dr Ayako Tani, a glass artist and researcher at the National Glass Centre, Sunderland.
The exhibition features Dr Tani’s collection of vintage glass ships in bottles, her own glass artwork and ‘Vessels in Memory’, an oral history and art project featuring filmed conversations with former scientific glassblowers.
Glass Ships in Bottles tells the remarkable story of highly skilled scientific glassblowers who were made redundant following the decline of heavy industry in the 1970s. Facing unemployment, they combined their experience making laboratory apparatus in an open flame with artistic flair to create and sell glass ships in bottles.
A boom in demand ensued and, by the 1990s, tens of thousands of these intricate glass ships were in production. The craft finally disappeared from the UK in 2005 and today the skill of scientific glassblowing is recognised as ‘Endangered’ by the Heritage Crafts Association.
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