Alwin Overwater is a Glassblower, and since 1997 is producing work in a nostalgic workshop in the Friesian village of Exmorra. He was born in 1967 in the Northern Dutch village of "De Kwakel "which the Glass Works was named after. A "Quakeltje " or " Kwakeltje " is a very small bridge of which is typical in this village, in combination with his surname "Overwater " made a pleasant Trade name. There are different techniques how glass objects can be formed, Alwin uses a burner and glass staffs or tubes and colour can be added either by glass pellets or coloured staffs.
