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History of Glass Blowing & Ornament Making
Glass Blowing: Techniques & Furnaces
Glass Blowing: Tools
Glass Blowing: Using an Annealer
Glass Blowing: Safety
Glass Blowing: How to Gather Molten Glass
Glass Blowing: How to Make a Holiday Ornament
Glass Blowing: How to Properly Cool Pieces
Glass Blowing: Using an Optic Mold to Make Holiday Ornaments
Glass Blowing: Using an Optic Mold to Create Texture on Holiday Ornaments
Glass Blowing: Adding a Hanging Loop to a Holiday Ornament
Glass Blowing: Making Blown Glass Fishing Boats
Glass Blowing: Feathering Technique
Glass Blowing: Using a Pick to Feather a Holiday Ornament
Glass Blowing: Adding Patches to Holiday Ornaments
Summary: How to gather molten glass when glass blowing; learn this and more in this free arts and crafts video by a glass blowing expert.
Ana Willow Obermayr, a fourth generation artist in the Obermayr family, has been blowing glass since 1994. She received her early training in Seattle Washington where she studied at...read more
"Hi I’m Anna from annawillowglassdesign.30art.com and I am going to show you how to make a Christmas ornament now out of blown glass. First I will gather a little bit of molten clear glass out of the furnace onto the end of the blow pipe and then I will bring it over to the color and apply some color to it. This is going to be kind of spots of transparent green and then I am going over to the glory hold and melt that cold color onto the outside of the blow pipe. As soon as that is done I come over here and marver on this metal table to shape and cool the outside of the glass and get it ready for me to put a bubble of air inside of it, which I’ll do now. So now that the air has gotten hot in the very tip in there and it expands by itself because it is so hot, we’ll go over to the bench and we will shape the ornament. "
eHow Article: Glass Blowing: How to Gather Molten Glass
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