Write Your Own Column: ; Hand-Cut Glass - Death of an Art

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DID you know that an ancient craft guild died right here in the Kanawha Valley? The art of hand-cutting flat glass on a production basis is gone. The old skill of cutting sheet glass to marketable sizes and grading for qualities for use in buildings, autos and mirrors has died.

A 100 years ago, there were many "hand plants" throughout West Virginia - in South Charleston, Dunbar, Clarksburg, Mannington - and other places where natural gas and silica sand were readily available. But they didn't last long.

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Write Your Own Column: ; Hand-Cut Glass - Death of an Art

Many readers will remember the huge Libbey-Owens-Ford Co. plant in Kanawha City, where the Kanawha Mall is now located. The plan...

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