Two people and a furnace
in Wordsley
Glint & Pour is Maud Ferrier and Tobias Anand, in a brick workshop on the old glass road through Stourbridge.
She blows it,
he cuts it.
Maud learned at the furnace in Amblecote and spent nine years making chandelier drops for other people before she lit her own. Tobias came to glass from stone-setting, which is why the Facet’s cut is placed by eye rather than by template.
They make the same eleven pieces all year, so that a glass you break in 2029 can still be matched. New shapes arrive slowly — about one a year, when it has earned its place on the shelf.
How the
workshop runs
Everything here runs to the furnace’s clock. It is lit on Thursday at six and the last glass goes into the annealing oven by four.
- Furnace
- 1,140°C, gas-fired, 40 kg pot
- Cooling
- 14 hours in the annealing oven
- Cutting wheel
- 36 cm diamond, water-fed
- A week’s work
- About 60 glasses
- Seconds
- Melted down and blown again
- Off-cuts
- Sent to a Birmingham bead maker
Visit, or write
- Address
- Unit 4, Cone Yard, 112 High Street, Wordsley, Stourbridge DY8 4AL
- Open
- Thursday to Saturday, 10:00–17:00
- Telephone
- 01632 960 418
- Getting here
- Bus 15 from Stourbridge Interchange stops at the door; parking in the yard
Come on a Thursday,
when the furnace is lit.