Places, Traditions and Discoveries · Drawing 35 of 40
Glass takes shape
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 illustration notes (3)
An imagined workshop and objects; the drawing does not reproduce Espace VERRE or teach glassblowing techniques.
These links lead to other websites. Explore them with an adult. References identify the institution and the related lesson; some linked pages are in French.
- Espace VERRE — Mission et historiqueFormation et création en arts verriers; installation dans une ancienne caserne en 1986.
- Espace VERRE — Soufflez votre boule de Noël, archive de l’activité de 2024Description du soufflage dans une canne avec des verriers. Archive de 2024; aucun horaire, tarif ou inscription actuel n’est repris.
- Corning Museum of Glass — Hot Glass DemosVerre chaud attaché au bout d’une canne pour le soufflage et la mise en forme; référence du geste, pas du lieu montréalais.
Source review: 2026-09-19. Illustrations simplify places and scenes; they are not historical documents.
