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Acid etching
as a method for patterning glass came to Sweden in the late 1800s.(There is information, not yet confirmed, that Kosta has etched glass in their catalogues from 1894 up to the 1970ies.)
The history of acid etching on glass
The Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele is often called "the father of glass etching" - in 1771 he
showed that hydrofluoric acid (HF) would mark glass.
Whether he, or others of his generation, did something with this knowledge is not known.