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During breaks or at the end of the workday, glass blowers were generally allowed to fashion leftover molten glass into items for personal use. They created both utilitarian and decorative pieces that were entirely separate from the limited repertory of production work. These offhand objects, considered examples of folk art in glass, have been called whimsies or end-of-the-day glass, suggesting that they were frivolous and have only incidental significance. Although these terms do sound demeaning, ''Folk art illustrates the basic urge of the human spirit to create objects of beauty.''