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Schmid is the author of Beginning Glassblowing and Advanced Glassworking
Techniques, the world’s best-selling books on how to blow glass. His latest book, The
Glassworker’s Bathroom Reader, is a tongue-in-cheek homage to the life and times of a
contemporary glassmaker.
Currently, Schmid is collecting information for a new book on the history and techniques
of Murano glassblowing. “The time is right to give Murano its due credit in terms of the
island’s global influence on glassmaking. I’m truly inspired by people like Lino Tagliapi-
etra, Pino Signoretto, and Elio Quarisa, who have graciously shared thousands of years of
techniques with a very hungry audience.”
In October 2015, Schmid spent a week studying at The Pratt Fine Arts Center in Seattle,
Washington, with maestro Davide Salvadore from Murano. To continue his research and
writing, Schmid has established a crowd-funding campaign he will be promoting in the
coming weeks through Facebook and personal e-mails.
Schmid’s publishing company, Glass Mountain Press, oversees the production and direct
distribution of his books. Due to their popularity, the artist has been invited all over the
world—including Australia, New Zealand, and Istanbul—to teach classes in glassblowing.Ed Schmid working on Looking
Through a Glass Onion. This Ed Schmid
selfie shows him blowing glass orna-
ments in his new hot shop, December
2015.
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