glass floats

Dry Creek Decor

Make your river rock! Decorate outdoors with these sturdy and vibrant balls with high-contrast hues and spot patterns. Enliven a dry creek, float in a pond or birdbath, nest among plants, display in the garden, or stack in a basket. The River Rock patterns just listed!

Decorate with costal style! Glass fishing floats capture the spirit of finding a treasure on the beach. These spheres replicate vintage blown glass fishing floats of a bygone time. Before plastic, fishermen around the world used blown glass balls to buoy fishnets. Highly decorative, we make them new in a colorful array for display in…

Discover Float Tourism – Custom Glass Balls

We make custom glass floats to make your event a success! Host a float hunt, drive tourism, activate a space, raise funds, or decorate indoors and outdoors. These sturdy glass balls are inspired by vintage glass fishing floats that are treasured beach-combing finds. Three sizes are available in the colors of your choice. Contact us…

West Seattle Glass Float Hunt 2025

Avalon Glassworks is proud to have created the limited edition blown glass floats for the 2025 West Seattle Float Hunt. August 8 through 15, these balls will be hidden at local businesses and outdoor spaces. One hundred of these commemorative floats are finders-keepers! Sponsored by the West Seattle Chamber of Commerce and West Seattle Junction…

REFRACT – Live Glass Blowing Demos

Join us for Live Glassblowing Demos during “Refract: The Seattle Glass Experience” October 16-19, 2025. Watch live glassblowing close-up: Thursday 10/16/25, 12-4pm Friday 10/17/25, 12-4pm Saturday 10/18/25, 12-4pm Sunday 10/19/25, 12-4pm Talk to the artist and learn about the process. Demonstrations continue throughout the day at Avalon Glassworks. Free to watch. Glass pumpkins and art…

Float Sale to Benefit The Museum of The North Beach

Meet us in Seabrook, Pacific Beach, WA for our annual Art Glass Float Sale to benefit the Museum of the North Beach. Purchase this year’s Moclips edition float “King Tide” and other colorful hand blown glass floats and sea life sculptures by Avalon Glassworks. Art Glass Float Sale Sunday, March 29, 2026 10am-3pm The Historic…

A Beachcomber’s Treasure

Simple and beautiful with a surprisingly practical and sustainable history: the Fishing Float. A Collectible with a Past Sturdier than they appear, glass fishing floats (sometimes called Japanese fishing floats) were – and occasionally still are – used to stabilize fishing nets in the open waters by fishermen. Back in the day (say, 50 to…

Glass Float Sizes

Our blown glass floats come in three approximate diameters: 2.75″, 3.25″ and 4.25″. The smallest size is pinch-sealed closed. The medium and large sizes are sealed with raised glass stopper buttons. Color choices are nearly infinite with opaque and transparent shades available. Made in the spirit of Japanese Fishing Floats, these sturdy spheres are decorative…

Moclips Float 2021

2021 “Macro Plastic” – SOLD OUT. Our annual float to benefit the Museum of the North Beach in Moclips, WA, is called “Macro Plastic.” We are raising awareness of plastic pollution and benefitting the Museum. “Macro Plastic” is 4″ in diameter and sealed hot with a button stamped with “Moclips-by-the-Sea.” A portion of the purchase…