Vrbno pod Pradědem - TOMI glassworks

The production of glass should have started sometime around 3500 BC. The first glassworks on the territory of today's Czech Republic began to grow in the 14th century. Vrbno pod Pradědem also has a long-standing glassmaking tradition. Glass smelters were mainly established near beech forests, from which high-quality wood served for many years as fuel in furnaces for melting glass. At the beginning of the 21st century, the operation of the production…