Eda glasbruk
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Eda glasbruk is a locality situated in Eda Municipality
, Värmland County
, Sweden
with 254 inhabitants in 2005.
factory was started at the place that later would be known as Eda glasbruk. The factory
was closed in 1953. Eda glasbruk is known for the carnival glass
produced there between 1925-1929, but also for glas disigned by Gerda Strömberg.
Eda Municipality
Eda Municipality is a municipality in Värmland County in west central Sweden, on the Norwegian border. Its seat is located in the town of Charlottenberg....
, Värmland County
Värmland County
Värmland County is a county or län in west central Sweden. It borders the Swedish counties of Dalarna, Örebro and Västra Götaland, as well as the Norwegian counties of Østfold, Akershus and Hedmark to the west.- Province :...
, Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
with 254 inhabitants in 2005.
History
In 1835 a glassGlass
Glass is an amorphous solid material. Glasses are typically brittle and optically transparent.The most familiar type of glass, used for centuries in windows and drinking vessels, is soda-lime glass, composed of about 75% silica plus Na2O, CaO, and several minor additives...
factory was started at the place that later would be known as Eda glasbruk. The factory
Factory
A factory or manufacturing plant is an industrial building where laborers manufacture goods or supervise machines processing one product into another. Most modern factories have large warehouses or warehouse-like facilities that contain heavy equipment used for assembly line production...
was closed in 1953. Eda glasbruk is known for the carnival glass
Carnival glass
Carnival glass is moulded or pressed glass, always with a pattern and always with a shiny, metallic, 'iridescent' surface shimmer.The keys to its appeal were that it looked superficially like the very much finer and very much more expensive blown iridescent glass by Tiffany, Loetz and others and...
produced there between 1925-1929, but also for glas disigned by Gerda Strömberg.