the glass-blowing process and hot casting. The hot shop houses three work benches, three reheating chambers, two furnaces, an assortment of front- and top-loading kilns, community hand tools, pipes ...

Around the kilns are a dozen seats and a small bleacher where groups can get a great view of the Murano glass blowing process. Our Murano glass blowing experience began as soon as the friendly ...

As he blows forcefully into it, the fiery-red lump of colored glass on its end expands, forming into a perfect, round shape. "Blowing is a crucial step in the process of making colored glass and ...

Varieties of form and pattern may be attained "by this method which are impossible in the blowing process, and the larger portion of goblets, salt-cellars, and other glass table ware, in common ...

Artist Dale Chihuly has become synonymous with reimagining what glass can do. Having long ago stopped blowing glass himself, at 75, he heads an art world enterprise at his Seattle studio.