Jerpoint Glass Studio is home to the magic of mouth-blown, handmade and hand-finished glassware. Located within the charming, rural village of Stoneyford, Co. Kilkenny, the story of this family-run glassblowing studio began more than 40 years ago.

Jerpoint Glass was established, by Keith and Kathleen Leadbetter, in 1979. Keith trained as a glassblower at the prestigious Orrefors Glass School in Sweden. Kathleen is a self-taught artist with a love of aesthetics and design. She creates the unique colour palette now synonymous with the heritage craft studio. Their passion for glassblowing has passed to the next generation. Today their son, Rory Leadbetter, is a master glassmaker at Jerpoint Glass, along with fellow artisan James Long.

True to its roots, Jerpoint continues the art of glassmaking using simple hand tools and a two-thousand-year-old tradition. Gathering molten glass from a furnace that glows at 1250°c, the glassblowers work together using deceptively minimal movements to develop the desired shapes by strategically heating, cooling and manipulating the red-hot liquid until the magical transformation takes place.

From humble beginnings, Jerpoint is now known across the globe for its honest forms and use of colour, inspired by the Irish countryside.