Glass making!

You’ll Be Mesmerized Watching These Glass Sculptures Being Forged By Flame

by Mitchell Friedman

Glass is so old, it predates man’s discovery of fire. In nature, glass forms “when certain types of rocks melt as a result of high-temperature phenomena such as volcanic eruptions, lighting strikes” or the like, according to the House of Glass. The oldest fragments of manmade glass date all the way back to the 16th century BC in Mesopotamia, and since then the craft has evolved steadily and spectacularly. Using heat and cooling, a talented glass maker is capable of nearly any shape.

A Fish

1. It starts out like a lightbulb

2. Pinching the hot glass gives it fins and scales

3. Drizzel on a colorful dorsal

4. And voila

A Ferrari horse

1. It begins like a bean

2. But pull out the head, mane and legs with pincers

3. Elongate those legs and cut it off the stick

4. Majestic

The ‘Simon Pearce Prouty Wave’

1.Roll it around

2. Push in the edges

3. Spin it in the fire

4. Mold the core into the ‘wave’ shape

5. Awesome

A hand holding a flower

1. Cut fingers into the hot nugget of glass

2. A thumb is not a finger

3. Heat up and stick on the hot flower

4. Pop in the oven and a touch it up

5. Perfect