How Do They Do It??

Glassblowing is glassforming technique. A person who blows glass is called a glassblower, glassmith or gaffer. They using blowpipe or blow tube to blow the glass. Free-blowing is one of the technique of glassblowing. The process of free-blowing involves the blowing of short puffs of air into a molten portion of glass which is gathered at one end of the blowpipe.

The glassworker then quickly inflate the molten glass into a desired shape. Skilled workers are capable of shaping almost any vessel forms by rotating the pipe, swinging it and controlling the temperature of the piece while they blow. They can produce a great variety of glass objects, ranging from drinking cups to window glass.

History..

Glassblowing is a glass forming technique which was invented by the Phoenicians at approximately 50 B.C. somewhere along the Syro-Palestinian coast. The earliest evidence of glassblowing comes from a collection of waste from a glass workshop, including fragments of glass tubes, glass rods and tiny blown bottles, which was dumped in a mikvah, a ritual bath in the Jewish Quarter of Old City of Jerusalem dated from 37 to 4 B.C.

In conclusion, glassblowing is the art that not everyone can do it. It needs skills and full commitment to produce it.