Looking after Bronze statues shopping? Bronze sculptures are perfect for a special gift occasion or if you want to infuse some art in to your home. At the foundry, the wax Desk Buddies have solid wax channels (called sprues and gates) attached through which molten bronze will flow. The wax Buddies are dipped repeatedly in a fluid ceramic material. This creates a thick, hard shell that will be tough enough to take the molten bronze. I find that even collectors of bronze can be unclear about how editions work. Here I’ll pull back the curtain on the bronze industry a …

In 1927, a Pittsburgh man named Joseph Garaja filed his application for a patent for a liquid-filled novelty paperweight that improved upon previous designs; the design he presented and later sold was a fish floating in sea grass. But it wasn’t Garaja’s under-the-sea theme that impressed the industry. His real contribution to snow globe manufacturing was in pioneering the now-obvious method of assembling the globes underwater to ensure they were entirely filled. This, David Bear wrote for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 2000, “revolutionized” the snow globe industry: “They went from being expensive mementos individually crafted by skilled artisans to items …

Do you like drinking beer so much that this makes you a huge beer fan wanting to use a beer themed phone case or a beer themed backpack? Did you ever imagined that there are online stores focused on Beer Gifts ? Craft Beer Art project is one (maybe one of the very few) of them, specialized in providing unique, custom artwork beer themed gifts and accessories. What can you see on the Craft Beer Art project ? Some of the things there are so wild that probably you never tought they exist. Like blankets with custom design based on …