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Waterford: House of Waterford Crystal Factory Tour

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Activity provider:House of Waterford Crystal
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Waterford: House of Waterford Crystal Factory Tour

Activity provider:House of Waterford Crystal
4.8  / 5
168 reviews
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Take a tour of the world-famous House of Waterford Crystal. You'll get a unique behind-the-scene look at how master craftsmen create some of the world's most exquisite crystal objects. You’ll also have time to explore Waterford’s retail shop!

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Duration 1 hour
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Live tour guide
English
Wheelchair accessible

Experience

Highlights
  • Learn about the history of Waterford Crystal from its earliest days
  • Watch skilled artisans blow, cut, sculpt and engrave crystal
  • Explore the retail shop’s shining and elegant wares
Full description
The House of Waterford Crystal Tour is more than a factory visit. We take you on a journey into the world of crystal. You’ll see each stage of the process that goes into making these pieces of art. We start in the history room, tracing Waterford Crystal from its birth. This part of the site features detailed exhibits of the firm’s development, and you’ll see some of their great antique pieces on display here. You’ll then proceed to the mold room, where wooden molds and hand tools are still used by master blowers to shape the molten crystal. From here we move on to the blowing room, where you’ll watch as craftsmen transform glowing balls of molten crystal into elegant shapes. In the cutting department, master craftsmen use industrial diamond-tipped wheels to cut the crystal. The diamond wheel ensures a high quality cut to the crystal. The last two stages of the process involve sculpting and engraving, and are arguably the most precision-based stages in the creation of a piece of Waterford Crystal. Your tour ends with a visit to the retail shop, where you’ll see the largest display of Waterford Crystal in the world.
Includes
  • Factory tour admission fee
  • Guided tour of the factory with friendly and knowledgeable guides
  • Detailed information about the history of Waterford Crystal
  • Interactive tour of the factory with the ability to ask questions of the craftsman about their work
  • Visit to the House of Waterford Crystal retail store
  • Meals and drinks
  • Souvenirs
  • Interpretative equipment

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The Mall, Waterford City

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4.8 /5

based on 168 reviews

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Excellent, very informative and well run. From the receptionist when you walk in to the sales staff everyone is friendly and very easy to get along with. The show room is amazing and I was surprised when you do the factory tour how close you are to see what they are doing and you can actually talk and ask questions of the craftsman.

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July 25, 2023

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Would recommend this tour for anyone who wants to understand how chrystalware is made. The tour was in the Waterford production center and we were shown how designers create a pattern and then wood molds are made that matches the design pattern. After the molding process, the blowing process starts. This is where amazing luxury crystal begins to take its shape. The Master Craftsmen use a furnace that reaches temperature of 2,400 degrees F to transform molten balls of glowing, red hot crystal to create Waterford Crystal. The House of Waterford Crystal has very strict inspection standards. If the crystal does not pass all six inspections, it is rejected and sent back to the furnace for re-melting. Go. It's an amazing process and you wont regret it.

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July 18, 2023

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An interesting and informative tour with an opportunity to get up close to watch the master craftsmen work making the beautiful crystal pieces. The young tour guide was friendly with lots of patience as inevitably the single American tourist with the large video camera held the tour up whilst he got his shots. Well done young man. Had a complicated first name but can’t remember what is was now.

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