Exposed: The Most Famous Glass Sets
Based on the Latin word glacies, which signifies ice, glass is originally made through melting soda and sand together. And because it’s usually human’s innate need to discover easier ways for doing things, they added pot ash and lime to make the glass-making process a lot simpler. So, as creativity developed, people learned to change the color, weight, shape, and strength of glass through the use of metals like gold, silver, cobalt, and copper.