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Places, Traditions and Discoveries · Drawing 35

Glass takes shape

Colouring illustration: Glass takes shape
An imagined workshop and objects; the drawing does not reproduce Espace VERRE or teach glassblowing techniques.

In Montréal, craftspeople learn to work with glass. Their skills can turn this material into a vase or a ball.

Look together

What shape would you give a vase?

An idea to try

Draw two imaginary vases together, one very wide and one very narrow. Your child invents a different pattern for each.

For the adult reading along

A little more to discover

Espace VERRE in Montréal is a training and creative centre for glass arts. It moved into a former fire station in 1986. Among the practices it presents, glassblowing uses a pipe through which the craftsperson blows to work the glass. The skill combines material, tools and learned actions.

Focus on possible shapes: a ball, wide vase or narrow vase. The drawing can start a conversation about objects made by people. The activity is to imagine an outline on paper, without handling glass or copying work in a hot workshop.

Sources and context

These links lead to other websites. Explore them with an adult. Source titles appear in their original language; some linked pages are in French.

Source review: 2026-09-12. Illustrations simplify places and scenes; they are not historical documents.