my tradition

My grandfather Fritz Greiner-Petter, the last figure eye master, taught me the craft of traditional eye making in front of the glass blowing lamp. All of our ancestors were "eye makers". I'm the 7th generation.
At the age of 87 he was still able to create the most beautiful eyes. During his apprenticeship, simple doll eyes without crystal were mainly produced in large quantities. At that time, crystal glass eyes were only found in very particularly valuable dolls, which I now almost exclusively produce.
Together with his father, he developed the production of reflex eyes to the point of patentability. These glass eyes give the impression that dolls with these eyes are looking at the viewer from every angle. I offer a similar kind of "Living Eyes". Unfortunately, this special way of eye-manufacturing is very complex, so I can only offer a few.
When the wall fell in 1989 I was just 18 years old, a good age to learn everything.