Fusing is a technique already used 3,500 years ago in the manufacture of glass objects.
It is in fact the oldest of the techniques of manufacture and work of glass since "to fuse" means to melt glass.
The manufacture of glass objects in a furnace was formerly long, complex and prohibited the realization of objects of large size. The first period of prosperity of this technique was in Mesopotamia and reached its peak during the Egyptian culture. At the beginning of the Christian era, the use of kiln-worked glass was replaced by glass blowing.
Kiln-worked glass reappeared in Europe around 1870. Since 1980, this technique has spread to the United States and then throughout the world. Narcissus Quagliata is one of our contemporaries who uses this technique.
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