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Kvames balked then at being called a craftsman and maintained that the title wouldn’t be earned until he’d practiced his craft for a decade or so.
Until 1985, he sold his work through the Middle Street Gallery and the Rush River Artists Cooperative in the town of Washington, and he followed the craft shows. By then, he’d added the portable furnace to the annealing oven and shop furnace he’d constructed out of junk salvaged from Pete Estes’ junkyard in Sperryville. He and Mr. Estes, who is also a member of the county’s Board of Supervisors, became “good acquaintances,’’ as Mr. Kvames puts it. “Glass blowers have to be on good terms with the junk man because we build everything with junk!”
When Mr. Estes decided to swap the junk business for the antique trade, he offered the site for sale. Mr. Kvames looked at the trends: glass blowers being shut down by zoning boards that contend a 2000 degree furnace ought to be in an industrial zone and not a store front or backyard shop. He looked at the location: on a major tourist highway in a rejuvenated and tourist-oriented village. And he looked at the zoning: industrial, one of only three parcels so designated in all of Rappahannock County.
And he remembered his dream of introducing people to the old ways of craftsmanship. “This mindless buying, the yuppie spending spree of the
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