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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 add a patch to a blown glass holiday 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
"Stop, perfect. So now we have a really large ball of glass with that gorgeous feathery pattern on it. We are going to go over the knock off station and we are going to put a patch on it with a fancy design. So before I do that I have to just give it a little bit of a flash and my assistant will bring me a hot gather of fresh glass out of the furnace. The reason for the patch that as you can see when I take this piece off of the pipe there is a whole left in it and that hole is sharp. Come straight on over. Come on. There you go. So it is basically just a fresh pot gather of glass. Not too much or too little. And then I have the stamp that I am going to press onto the top of it and it makes sort of a star pattern which just adds a little visual “je ne sais quoi”. So just like all the other pieces that we’ve made today and at the end of the day we have poured into the annealer so that it can cool down slowly overnight so that it doesn’t crack. This has been Anna Willow Overmyer from annawillowglassdesign.30art.com on behalf of Expert Village.com, thanks for watching. "
eHow Article: Glass Blowing: Adding Patches to Holiday Ornaments
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