Making Marbles By Hand

Hand made glass marbles.

Making marbles by hand.

In the late 1800 s glass marble making began to shift into american as europe s finest craftsmen left home to seek a new life in the new world. In 1997 this need led us to the opening of the moon marble company store. We stock machine made marbles in a multitude of colors and designs in sizes from pee wees to 50mm. A marble is a small spherical toy often made from glass clay steel plastic or agate these balls vary in size.

You can count on us to provide you with our products in small or large quantities in any mix you need. You can make these lovely cracked marbles with any glass marbles that you have on hand and if you do them in different sizes use some of those really large ones you can make jewelry that is so unique. These marbles didn t have pontils the nubs left over from where the rod was severed from the glob so they rolled straighter in the game of marbles. Cracked marbles are really beautiful and they are super easy to make if you want to do the yourself.

At the marble man in woodford va jack and sue always has glass marbles in various colors styles and sizes on hand. The machine was an improvement upon shaping marbles entirely by hand over a heatsource. We wanted marbles that we had as children like bumble bees cubscouts puries and so on. Blow torches are used in the making of glass marbles.

For more information regarding our products get in touch with us. Mass production made marbles much cheaper to make allowing the price to drop from about one penny each to a bag of 30 marbles for the same price. The asterisks indicate marbles that were made during demonstrations at the moon marble company. Handmade glass art marbles made by contemporary glass artists in the u s a.

It also never hurts to have a hand held black. Germany came to dominate the marble industry in the 19th and 20th century.