Do you know how to shape glass or how different types of shapes are being given to glass? Today in this article we are going to discuss the Glass blowing technique.
Archeological findings have proved that glassmaking was known to man more than 5,000 years ago. The transparent, hard but breakable substance we call glass becomes soft when heated carefully and can be blown, pressed, rolled, and worked into different shapes this process is called glass blowing. For hundreds of years, working with glass by blowing has been used for making beautiful and useful shapes of glass.
Glass Blowing Technique
To blow glass in the traditional way, the glassblower takes a ball of molten glass and puts it at the end of his blowpipe. When he skillfully blows through the blow-pipe the hot ball of glass could be blown like a balloon. The workable glass can be drawn out to the required thinness and into different shapes. The glass has to be kept hot and workable by heating and reheating it. This method is called “freehand” glass blowing and is still used for making special and expensive glass materials.
For making common glass materials such as bottles, in large numbers, machines are nowadays used.
