November 2021 by Birgit Deubner
Seaway China Company sell Glassware made in China, undercutting in price local Artists to the extent that they can not make a living from their work if pro ducting glass in the US or UK. If you truly are interested in unique glass then search for glass artists in your country who will create something truly individual. Of course the true cost of a vase may be 5 - 10 times higher. If you purchase cheap Art made in production overseas then you feed the economic inequalities and contribute to killing of high end art in your own country. Cheap comes at a cost. Not to mention that the glass artists in China are all not named and who knows what their working conniptions are. I have seen working condition (barely living wages for physically strenuous work) here in the US, I can only guess at the conditions and benefits offered abroad. Be smarter, buy local
