Thanks to additions during the glassmaking process, cadmium, vaseline, lead crystal, manganese, selenium, and custard glass ...

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The earliest known use of blown glass is attributed to the Phoenicians ... There’s another rack on the right for the variously colored glass rods that the sculptors choose from to create ...

Most 13-year-olds wouldn’t ask for a glass-blowing torch for their birthday ... the flame shop — where heat is used to shape glass rods into sculptures or functional pieces.

The thicker the rod, the harder it is to control and adjust exactly to ... It’s essential to exercise caution when glass-blowing; the material reaches temperatures between 870°C and 1,040°C, so the ...

In addition to blowing glass, she plays the French horn ... She’s melting down small glass rods and refashioning them into miniature sculptures. Edmunds is a ninth-grader at Tacoma’s Science ...

It’s like watching a choreographed dance, if that dance involved 2000-degree furnaces and molten glass on the end of a metal rod. Ruby reds and emerald greens ... alternating between blowing into the ...

Glass bottles over 300 years old have been retrieved from the depths of the Atlantic Ocean. Divers discovered two well-preserved onion glass bottles from a shipwreck in the Atlantic Ocean off the ...

A pig-tailed assistant uses a metal rod to thrust open the glowing furnace ... "I really do feel connected to the history of glass blowing, and that is because I've spent thousands of hours ...

Actor and comedian Kevin Hart loves his hot rods and had several of them debut ... note—thank you for not flush-mounting the glass and shaving the drip rails). See All 59 Photos The car ...

the red-hot glass on the rod turns cobalt blue and forms what will eventually become a 7-inch vase. Color is the first thing you notice about the artist’s hand-blown glass vessels.