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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 properly cool down a blown glass ornament; 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
"I’m putting a little loop onto a blown glass Christmas ornament with molten hot glass. So once I’ve finished with the glass blown ornament I had to put it inside of the annealing so that it would cool down slowly overnight and that way it does not crack. Because if we put it out in the middle of the room at room temperature, the outside molecules of the glass would contract faster than the inside layer of molecules of the glass and therefore the whole entire thing would explode and that is why we put everything that we make once we are finished with it into the annealer to cool down slowly. "
eHow Article: Glass Blowing: How to Properly Cool Pieces
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