glass blowing

Also known as manual production of mouth-blown hollow and flat glass

thumb|A glassworker blows air into the glass, creating a cavity inside.

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It sits within the topics Firing techniques, Glass art and Glass fabrication techniques.

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Commons category: Glassblowing
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different from: lampworking

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Encyclopedic overview

21 sections

Contents

Technology
Principles
Free-blowing
Mold-blowing
Modern glassblowing
Tools
Blowpipe
Bench
Blocks
Jacks
Patterning
History
Earliest evidence
Roman Empire
Middle Ages
Industrial Revolution
Recent developments
In literature
See also
References
External links

thumb|A glassworker blows air into the glass, creating a cavity inside.

Glassblowing is a glassforming technique that involves inflating molten glass into a bubble (or parison) with the aid of a blowpipe (or blow tube). A person who blows glass is called a glassblower, while the head of a glassblowing workshop is known as a gaffer. A lampworker (often also called a glassblower or glassworker) manipulates glass with the use of a torch on a smaller scale, such as in producing precision laboratory glassware out of borosilicate glass.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “glass blowing” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.