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Harvard’s World-Famous Glass Flowers: Fragile Beauties (2024)

by wtp30twice on 5/27/25, 8:22 PM with 1 comments

  • by wtp30twice on 5/27/25, 8:22 PM

    A collection of hyper-realistic glass botanical models created in the late 1800s by father-son artists Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka for Harvard. I thought this was the most fascinating thing ever. Every single of of these flowers is made out of glass! They cant replicate it either. Apparently the methods are lost..