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From its beginning Moser factory has developed a formula for manufacturing glass as hard as rock and as brilliant as lead crystal, without using lead. This composition is very suitable for Moser marvellous engravings and much more ecological than lead crystal. Moser glass belongs to potash-lime glass. The raw materials used for making it are silica, potash, soda, other chemical substances and recycled glass. The exact recipe determines its hardness, brilliance, and the colour. The entire mixture is heated in the furnace to a temperature up to 1470°C for about 15 hours. The molten mixture becomes an incandescent substance, which at about a temperature 1280°C the glassmakers start to form into objects. Moser uses pot furnaces. Each furnace has six to eight pots (glory holes) from which the glassblower using a long iron blow-pipe lifts out the required quantity.

Typical Moser colours are melted with the addition of noble earths and metal oxides. All decorative items, and often even some drinking sets, are offered in clear and in six basic transparent colours: Alexandrite, Aquamarine, Beryl, Eldor, Rosalin and Topaz. Dark colours, such as Dark blue, Dark violet, Smoke and Ocean green are melted irregularly, based on the special customer requests. They originate in the colours of precious stones. They are significant through their more delicate and more pleasant shades, which perfectly complement the colours of painted porcelain, and guarantee an elegantly and tastefully laid table.

As concerns customised products, we offer these in six colours: Amethyst, Aurora, Blue, Green, Reseda and Rose.

Basic colours