Glass

media type="custom" key="12259958" Bookmarked webpages about glass

The Corning Museum of Glass Channel from YouTube

Raw Materials of Glass
media type="custom" key="11443382" Uploaded by [|corningmuseumofglass] on Aug 23, 2007 See and understand the magical process of making glass from simple materials, by using great heat. Until the most recent times, glassmaking was a closely guarded secret passed on within workshops or even families from one generation to the next, often over hundreds of years.

Coloring Glass
media type="custom" key="11443408" Uploaded by [|corningmuseumofglass] on Aug 16, 2007 Five different methods of using colored glass are demonstrated; some produce a uniformly colored object, others a splotchy or mottled effect. Glass artists today use whatever method best suits their aesthetic choices.  Building a goblet on a blowpipe media type="custom" key="11443468" Uploaded by [|corningmuseumofglass] on Aug 16, 2007 Here is virtuoso Venetian-style glassblowing "without a net." One mistake and all is lost! Where "making a goblet from parts" allows mistakes to be isolated and destroyed, this process moves relentlessly forward, allowing no retakes. 

 Website of Glasi Hergiswil media type="custom" key="11443628" [|Die Erlebniswelt in der Glasi Hergiswil] From: [|GlasiHergiswil] | Aug 4, 2010 | 8,850 views

Ein kurzer Film mit einigen Eindrücken aus der Erlebniswelt der Glasi Hergiswil! Mehr Infos unter www.glasi.ch