GLASS

Young Students Learning Library;      700+ words ......more modern process is to float molten glass in a layer on top of a bath of...glassblower dips up a small amount of molten glass on the end of the pipe. The worker...glassblowing done by machines. Molten glass is poured continuously over a nozzle...

Glass Dancer

Minnesota Monthly;  May 1, 2008 ;     533 words ......makes magic with heat, light, and molten glass Walk through the door of Pat Casanova...end in a crucible of honey-like molten glass. Extracting a softball-sized blob...earth expressed in a dance with hot molten glass on the end of a hollow pipe." The...

BLOWING GLASS WITH HIGH STYLE; Area artisans create new works using same...

The Washington Times;  August 10, 2006 ;     700+ words ......in Laytonsville, he blows clear molten glass into mugs and bowls. If you talk...degrees Fahrenheit. He gathers clear, molten glass made from the raw materials of...decoration, he turns the clear molten glass in chips of colored glass. Then...

Reflections in a craftsperson's eye `Pictures in glass' created at studio

The Boston Globe;  December 20, 1998 ;     700+ words ......deception only begins there. Working in molten glass, especially, is a study in possibilities...nothing but making patterns on molten glass, doing nothing but decorating glass...assistants have to be ready to apply molten glass designs within a relatively short...

Art of Glass

The Washington Post;  August 17, 2001 ;     700+ words ......line marking where fire ends and molten glass begins. He dipped the rod into...was no time for breaks, for the molten glass would sag if Clausen stopped turning...of glass weighs 150 pounds. The molten glass is a commercial mixture, a silica...

FROM CAPE GLASS BLOWING TO CONN. BIG RIGSDETOURS

The Boston Globe;  May 18, 2003 ;     465 words ......degrees, each hold 250 pounds of molten glass - clear, cobalt, ruby, and teal...dripped just the right amount of molten glass onto the vase in a soft, reddish-oran...blue. Another measured drip of molten glass created a "lip wrap," a blue rim...

A TOUCH OF GLASS FOUNDER OF FITCHBURG DESIGN CENTER WAS LOOKING FOR SEA...

The Capital Times (Madison, WI);  April 11, 2006 ;     649 words ......Ribbons of fiery orange swirl through molten glass, expanding as life is breathed...something in a computer. Brooke blows molten glass into functional glassware like...and some people don't, he said. Molten glass just behaves in a certain way and...

Japanese Inventors Develop Molten Glass Degassing Apparatus

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 31, 2008 ;     314 words ......Ito, all from Yokohama, Japan, have developed a molten glass degassing method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conduit for molten glass, a molten glass degassing method and a sub-atmospheric apparatus...

A TOUCH OF GLASS AMATEURS PLAY WITH FIRE IN THE BERKSHIRES

The Boston Globe;  September 2, 2000 ;     700+ words ......not the devil himself, but molten glass that through careful layering...spinning by hand to keep the glass from drooping. The glass then is rolled into a cone...various shades of powdered glass or piles of glass canes that resemble tiny...confetti. It is these canes of glass, ...

Rough tools, fine art Glass blower shows just what it takes to perfect his...

Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  February 15, 2008 ;     700+ words ......fanciful and delicate visions of glass are crudely brutish, considering...to pound a red hot mass of glass into a rough form. A roofing...touch of James Wilbat, a glass blower for 31 years, that...private studios to make use of molten glass. For the past 16 years, his...extracts a hunk of ...

A Baltimore glass blower tells all

The Daily Record (Baltimore);  December 2, 2006 ;     700+ words ......frightening. The three will be making molten glass flowers and paperweights before...it is daunting to be "gathering" molten glass from a furnace that is set at 2...there will be about 300 pounds of molten glass. It is now time for Yanofski, a...

Craft; Exploring The Glass Frontier

The Washington Post;  September 16, 1993 ;     700+ words ......blowpipe with 20 to 30 pounds of molten glass on the other end. At age...most talented and versatile glass blowers at work today. Blowpipe...44, also an accomplished glass artist, Morris demonstrated...summer at a gathering of glass artists and enthusiasts in...working replica of an 1888 ...

PIPE DREAMS Beauty and innovation take shape at a glass blowing studio in...

Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME;  December 6, 2005 ;     700+ words ......the studio at Atlantic Art Glass in Ellsworth is like walking...a day, seven days a week? Glass blowing is hot, heavy, hands-...easy. They move as fluidly as molten glass and as gracefully as dancers...gathers another small ball of molten glass, called a punty, and joins...work, the ...

Japanese Inventors Develop Molten Glass Supply Device

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 21, 2006 ;     374 words ......from Otsu, Japan, have developed a molten glass supply device, a glass formed product...Patent & Trademark Office: "A molten glass supply device is provided, which...connection with the conventional molten glass supply device for high viscosity...

Japanese Inventors Develop Molten Glass Vacuum Degassing Apparatus

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 18, 2006 ;     298 words ......vacuum degassing apparatus for a molten glass. According to the U.S. Patent...vacuum degassing apparatus for molten glass includes: a vacuum housing which...vacuum housing to vacuum-degas molten glass as the molten glass flows therein...