A Fragile Peace: The Magic of American Cameo Glass from The Touma Collection Grafton Monster 4¼″×4¼″

4¼″×4¼″

Celebrate the season with FreshCut Paper's snow-tipped balsam fir

which includes American and European paintings

Handmade in WV

the candle is formed from beeswax collected during the summer months

A Fragile Peace: The Magic of American Cameo Glass from The Touma Collection Grafton Monster 4¼″×4¼″The art of glassmaking traces its beginnings to ancient times in the early cultures of Mesopotamia and Egypt. As the centuries passed, glassmakers became very skilled in their mastery of this fiery material, and by the time of the Roman Empire, the ability to fuse together layers of colored glass to form the walls of a vessel offered the opportunity to carve sophisticated surface designs on these objects. This type of glass, known as cameo glass, was