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Mini-Floats

"For almost fifty years, Japan, our immediate neighbor across the Pacific to the west, has unknowingly been sending good-will messengers to our Pacific beaches in the form of lost fishing net floats. These runaways from her vast fishing industry still create as much mystery and enchantment as they did in 1918, when they first started to show up on the Oregon beaches." - excerpt from "Beachcombing for Japanese Floats", by Amos L. Wood, 1967.

Since that time in 1967, those "good-will messengers" from across the Pacific have dwindled, but the tradition of finding hand-blown glass Floats on the Oregon coast has been continued by glassblowers on this side of the Pacific.  Of course, the newer Floats are more decorative than functional, but that also allows for the addition of colors and textures glassblowers of the past would have never imagined.  

Bob has a unique way of creating our floats to have that variety of color and texture, creating a tactile as well as visual experience.  Bob's Floats are available in a variety of styles - the Standard Float, the Hanging Float, and the Lighted Float styles.  Various sizes are available as well, from the 3-1/2" Minifloats and Ornaments, to the 6" Standard and Hanging Floats, to the 7", 8" or 10" Large Floats.

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These Mini-Floats are an increasingly popular way to get all those colors into a more compact space.  They have all the features of the Standard Floats, they 're just smaller (approx. 3-1/2").  Our Mini-Floats are great for displaying in groupings in a bowl, floating in a bird bath, or adding a touch of color just about anywhere.