Intro to Glassblowing – Demonstration

and now Katherine’s going to walk us
through the process of glassblowing
glasses worked by layer to get enough
quantity you have to go back in the
furnace many times to go gets last so I
start with just a small gather and then
I’m going to cover it in clear glass so
I can have a lot of glass on it and I’m
going to go get my color so this is a
colored grain that we use to color glass
I have to go back many times in the
color to get the density if I go only
once I love like small dots through the
piece so when I go many times it really
gives a nice color to the piece
whatever the piece I’m making it always
starts this way with putting the color
on gradually and then when I have my
last gather on that’s when the party
starts I have to really know where I’m
going so we’re just going to wait for it
to cool down a little bit and then we’re
going to go get the last gather okay
so this way I’m just placing the hut
glass be part reap arching it around the
color so it’s going to be even all the
way around we always have to be too and
the majority of the pieces that we’re
doing because I need someone to be
blowing stuff as well as I mean step I’m
taking care of the shape and the heats
and she’s taking care of the inflating
of the piece so
step so this is column Arbor it’s a
table made of stainless stainless steel
I’m barbering my glass for it to cool
down on the bottom so i can keep enough
thickness on the bottom and blow more of
the sides in the
the shoulders of the piece
just cooling off the bottom make sure
that it’s not too hot for the piece that
is coming
you have to be at the right temperature
if it’s too hot it’s going to fuse with
the bottom and then when you’re going to
try to detach it it’s going to come out
with the bottom I’m going to reheat the
end which is the lip of the vase and I’m
going to open the lip so it becomes
straight
so this is the end so I’m getting the
sharp parts to know so this way when I
get it out of the kill is perfect ready
to stop
okay then come and see
so this is how it looks when studs-up
it’s done