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Roman Furnace Project 2005: Glassworking Phase

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Pictured with Mark is Bill Gudenrath (from The Studio at Corning Museum of Glass)

1. The first gather. 2. The first bubble being blown.
3. Reheating the vessel. 4. Adjusting the door.
5. Making a handle. 6. Making a handle.
7. More glassblowing. 8. More reheating.
9. Working the vessel. 10. Warming the irons.
11. Gathering. 12. Marvering.
13. Blowing. 14. Blowing.
15. Attaching a punty. 16. Using a soffietta.
17. Opening the lip. 18. Using a soffietta.
19. Working the neck. 20. Attaching a handle.
21. Stretching the handle. 22. Attaching the other end of the handle.
23. Casting off. 24. The finished bottle.
25. Picking up white glass from the marver. 26. Reheating.
27. Making the lip. 28. Reheating.
29. Shaping the lip. 30. Shaping the lip.
31. A parison blown into a ribbed mould. 32. Shaping the bubble.
33. Shaping the bubble. 34. Shaping the bubble.
35. Attaching a foot. 36. Attaching a foot.
37. Shaping the foot. 38. Shaping the foot.
39. Shaping the foot. 40. Using a soffietta.
41. Shaping the foot. 42. Attaching the punty.
43. Cracking the vessel off the blowing iron. 44. Expanding the bowl.
45. Expanding the bowl. 46. Shaping the lip.
47. Shaping the lip. 48. The finished vessel.
49. Attaching a trail. 50. Cracking the vessel off the blowing iron.
51. Attaching a zig-zag decoration. 52. The finished vessel.
53. Attaching a handle. 54. Stretching the handle.
55. Shaping the handle. 56. Reheating.
57. Attaching another handle. 58. Attaching the other end of the handle.
59. Shaping a handle. 60. The finished vessel.
61. Knocking a vessel off the blowing iron. 62. Using the blowing iron as a punty.
63. Attaching a punty. 64. Marvering.
65. Attaching a handle. 66. Stretching the handle.
67. Determined gathering! 68. Gathering.
69. Attaching a punty. 70. Attaching a handle.
71. Reheating. 72. Finishing the vessel.
73. Attaching a handle! 74. Two glassblowers.
75. Two glassblowers. 76. Two glassblowers.
77. Two glassblowers. 78. The final day's glassblowing.

"If you build it, they will come."

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