PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- A group of students put their creative skills to the test, with extreme temperatures and molten glass. "It's running at 2100 degrees. It's on 24-7, 365 days a year," Jon ...

Another one, new for 2022, is a slender nutcracker ... they created a thinner glass. Christmas-ornament glass. "It's blown from hollow tubes of glass," Radko said. "They use the Bunsen burner ...

You’ve probably seen pretty, handmade glass Christmas ornaments hanging on trees, but have you ever wondered how they were made? GMC decided to celebrate the holidays by having some of their ...

Her “product” is a dying craft, made of hopes and legends and scientific-quality glass in equal measure. For her, Christmas ... where mouth-blown, hand-painted glass ornaments are produced.

For their Holiday Adventure, they made Christmas ornaments by glass blowing at Blue Sage Studios. Blue Sage's owner Andy Boatman took them through the process. Boatman is a middle school ...

“Stern expressions are usually nutcrackers ... Germany was the primary supplier of blown-glass Christmas ornaments. In 1939, Corning mass-produced the first American glass ball ornaments ...

But for the Old World Christmas ... glass by blowing on it, hence the term “mouth-blown glass.” “It’s a very involved process,” Waples said. The results are finely detailed ornaments ...

From the White House and the Eiffel Tower to butterflies and wedding cakes, a Polish company can make any kind of blown-glass Christmas tree decorations that clients fancy. The fragile ornaments ...

Boxes of hand-blown glass Christmas ornaments sit, ready for the festive season, at a workshop in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, where employees are among the last in Europe still making the ornaments without the ...

Where to shop: The Christmas Sleigh is stocked floor to ceiling with European imports, from hand-blown glass ornaments and glittered Ad-vent calendars to scene-­stealing nutcrackers and ...

Distance from DC: 45 miles. Where to shop: The Christmas Sleigh is stocked floor to ceiling with European imports, from hand-blown glass ornaments and glittered Ad-vent calendars to scene-­stealing ...