Chinese New Year. In the decorative arts, a bird is rarely just a bird and a flower seldom represents a simple flower. These evocative symbols conjure different narratives, ideas, and emotions according to the context in which they are portrayed and the viewer who observes them. That is what makes them so powerful.
Glass is formed by heating sand to its melting point. Objects are  then either cast or blown to their desired shape and allowed to  cool slowly    Glass is made from â¦ a mixture of sand and other materials. Just  regular sand can be made into glass, but it must be heated to about  3,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
These squashed marbles are 100% recycled glass, made in the USA. To make them, a dollop of molten glass is dropped onto a flat surface, where it is allowed to cool as it landed, so they are flat-backed, and rounded on the top side. They measure 1/2-9/16 (12-14mm) and are available in 20 pound cases (approximately 3,000 pieces). Small bubbles may be visible in transparent glass.