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Summary: How to create the feathering technique with an optic mold; 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
"So now I am heating in that color and I will soon make a really interesting design on it called feathering that Louis Comfort Tiffany made famous in the 1920’s and 1930’s. So I have to set this up a little bit in order to do that and we are going to do that by sticking it into the optic mold and then twisting a little bit. After I twist my assistant will bring over a tool that I called pick and I will feather the stripes that are made by using the optic mold. So now I am going in there. Got some little ridges and now I am going to twist and twist my ridges a little bit more before I heat them up in the glory hold to prepare for the next tooling. The next thing I will be doing I will be doing it tech style which is on the yolk rather than sitting down on the glass blowing bench. "
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