Sunday, April 17, 2011

Blowing Glass

Tempting Globes
Potential Color

Colored Silica Not sand
Super Heated
Tools of the Trade

Preheating
Adding hot color to hot glass
A color cap
Embedding Granules
Reheating
Swirling Color
Back to the Furnace
Puffs of Air
Holding Breath
Shaping
Forming
Expanding
Newspaper Shaper
Flattening
Transferring
Widening
Narrowing
Crimping
Triumphant Finish

These pictures taken at the AZ Renaissance Festival include different glass demonstrations from different angels. The process of blowing glass lasting hundreds of years.


4 comments:

  1. isn't this just amazing and so beautiful? thanks for sharing :)♥

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  2. I love watching the glass blowers!

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  3. Wow! What a masterpiece after all of that work. Thanks for sharing the process of glass making. You learn something new everyday.

    Blessings,
    Judy

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