Glass is a dazzling, puzzling material. A glob of glass looks as light as a soap bubble, but is, of course, as heavy as lead. It's solid, but it looks like empty air. And because glass gathers and ...

A paperweight can be both functional and a natural or manmade work of art. A paperweight can be a favorite rock found on the beach to hold down papers on your desk. It can be a chunk of round glass or ...

These balls of kaleidoscopic colour are actually paperweights and these delightful domes make up one of the finest collections of its type. 01 April 2010 • 10:36am Most of the paperweights are about ...

When Keren Hoover was 15, her parents returned from a trip to Italy with three paperweights for her. The small glass orbs were millefiore-style paperweights, one of the most popular designs, holding a ...