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Tyrone is a county where ancient pagan monuments and place names stand side by side with the Christian legacies of holy wells and ruined abbeys. Where the polish of modernity is tempered with the fire of more primitive times. The craft of glass-making seems tailor-made for this vigorous, colourful county. A craft first brought to Northern Ireland by a small group of Bristol glassmakers in 1771, it soon became traditional in the area.

THE CRAFT OF CRYSTAL
The raw material for lead crystal is an ancient blend of silica sand and litharge. Its exact formulation is a closely guarded secret. Its composition and its making seem at variance with the delicate result - the very harshness of its elements - lead, fire, water - at odds with its fragility and reflectiveness.

Crystal has a beauty born of the strength and dedication required of its craftsmen; as temperatures in the furnaces reach 1400 Celsius so that the molten crystal can be prepared for blowing in an area known simply as - the glasshouse. Following inspection the excess glass is cracked off each piece of blown crystal before cutting.
It is a ritual that is almost primeval.

In an age where increasingly machines are used for glass cutting, Tyrone crystal is still hand-made.

The result is a range of the highest quality hand-made, hand-cut and hand-polished crystal-ware made in Ireland.

When a Tyrone Crystal craftsman talks of his work you can feel that rigour, that strength, that passion for perfection. Every piece of Tyrone Crystal passes through 26 pairs of hands before completion, thus ensuring stringent quality control at each stage. Only the finest quality items will bear the name of 'Tyrone', a name which embraces the art of craftsmanship.

To own a piece of Tyrone Crystal is to own a piece someone's life & The single moments within the life of a master craftsman. It is fragile and delicate. Its transparency and ability to reflect make it almost a living thing. Yet it is tough enough to withstand fire. When you handle a piece of crystal - so pure, so fragile - one can only but appreciate the strength, beauty and passion behind its creation.

Tyrone Crystal is the craft of a resolute people whose strength of will and single-mindedness of purpose has resulted in a crystal that is as much of the earth as it is of heaven.
It is something to be celebrated - to be treasured for a lifetime.

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