These glass koru are the original ones!

Hand-crafted hot glass art gifts are made at Venus Hot Glass, a small Christchurch-based glass-studio operated by Ian Walters and Tokiko Tatemoto.

The glass is made from silica sand which comes from Mt Somers in scenic mid-Canterbury.

The sand is mixed with other minerals and melted in a furnace at 1300 degrees Celsius to form molten glass.

The glass is kept hot enabling Ian and Tokiko to add colour and manipulate it into funky koru glass art.