Glass Blowing: Using an Optic Mold to Create Texture on Holiday Ornaments

Video Transcript

"I just need to put a little bit of pressure into the pipe and that bubble will start expanding all by itself. See how I did that? Now I am going to reheat the glass inside of the glory hole and then I’ll go into this optic mold here which will create an interesting surface design on the outside of my glass piece. I’ll jump up so I can reach because I am short and blow into that optic mold and it creates those beautiful ridges all of the outside of the glass. Now I will have to reheat a little bit and before we go over to the bench and blow out this ornament. Are you ready? Let’s go. I’m going to make this one shaped a little bit unusually. Go ahead and blow. So I pulled out a little knob in the bottom so it will kind of make it look antique. Blow harder. Blow really hard. Stop. This will look just like the ornaments your grandma had on her tree when you were a little kid. "