Great News!
The film crew from the Discovery Channel show How it is Made visited our glass studio earlier this year and filmed two segments on our specialized ancient glass making tecniques. It is our pleasure to let you know that the segment on
Miliefiore Glass Paperweights aired on the Discovery Channel in Canada on Tuesday , January 4, 2011 at 8:00 ET. Please check your local listings for reruns
As well the segment on Filigree Glass aired on The Discovery Channel in Canada on Tuesday, February 1st, 2011 at 8:00 ET
Please note that this is the information given to us by Discovery. Please check their website and your local listings for upcoming reruns if you missed the first show!
We are also members of a new gallery in Hamilton called
ALLSORTS GALLERY
244 Ottawa St. North
Hamilton, ON
The ALLSORTS GALLERY is an Artists' Collective with approximately 30 different artists displaying and selling their work. Come by and see the handcrafted work proudly made in Canada!
We are available to meet you at our studio
GALACTIC ART GLASS
781 Main Street E., Unit 26-27
by appointment, please call in advance. 905-876-1609
Virginia and Tony's work
can also be purchased at:
THE ARTISANS ATTIC
73 Main St.
Georgetown, ON
We welcome you to Galactic Art Glass Studio, located in Milton, Ontario at the base of the Niagara Escarpment. The fine Canadian hand blown glass that Virginia and Tony make has our personal commitment to quality. We melt only the finest lead free crystal we have found for use in the creation of all of our work. We have no employes and this is not a factory. The batch we melt, (sand mixture) is called first melt crystal. The result is a beautiful colorless, mostly bubble free material that is responsible for the superior sparkle and transmission of light. This ensures the highest possible quality in all our product that has been combined with compatible colored glass. No recycled tinted clear glass or cullet in any form is considered for use in any manner.
Our art glass can be purchased here in our showroom and select galleries. We specialize in ancient Venetian Art Glass techniques developed approximately 1500 A.D. We make glass look like fabric using hundreds of threads of coloured glass combined with glass ribbon canes and or new space age reflective glass to produce unique works in glass. We hope our web site can help enlighten you on the process we are so passionate about. Learn more about Filigree Glass here.
We are open by chance or appointment, or check for holiday hours. Call, come by and enjoy a personal and unique shopping experience.
Thank you for supporting fine Canadian Hand Made Art Glass.
"My background in textiles has subliminally shaped my work with glass. Specializing in various types of simple and complex glass canes as the decorative medium on my forms, I create linear and threadlike patterns on complex, shimmering works.
The world around us is mysterious and precious. My rods of glass have been compared to strands of DNA, the building blocks of life itself. I find it fitting to use them exclusively for these pieces that are molded by my experiences and inspired by my dreams.
Virginia Wilson Toccalino
Melting crystal @ 2400 F gives me a feeling of great anticipation . The malleability of the substance and the way it reacts with different colors, temperatures, motion and gravity, leads me to believe that anything is possible in glass as long as you have a good command of the process. This truth is very exciting to me and my mind explodes with possibilities and
creative thoughts. Knowing the immortal qualities of the product leaves me extremely satisfied that the world will be left by us a more beautiful place through colored glass threads embedded in crystal.
Tony Toccalino