Apple QuickTime movie | 2001-05-27 | 26.8 MB | 320x240 | 15fps | 3 minutes, 33 seconds | [MooV/TVOD]
Transcription: Glassblowing is sometimes considered a skilled craft, but is increasingly being considered a fine art form by many people. Glassblowing as an art form first began in ancient Rome with the invention of the blowpipe. This allowed glass items to find their way into people's everyday lives. The environment in a glass becomes very hot as liquid glass must be maintained at 2100 degrees Fahrenheit. First, the glass artist must gather glass onto their blowpipe from a pool of molten glass. The artist then shapes the glass on the end of her blowpipe to ensure a bubble of even shape and thickness. Adding ...
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