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glass-blowing

British  

noun

  1. the process of shaping a mass of molten or softened glass into a vessel, shape, etc, by blowing air into it through a tube

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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“When I was blowing urban glass, I didn’t use traditional Italian glass-blowing techniques because I worked for a guy on a mountain in Tennessee,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times May 18, 2026

Also consider attending one of the many live glass-blowing demonstrations and lessons, as well as the guided tours of art exhibits, the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport’s public art collection and even Chihuly’s art studio.

From Seattle Times Sep. 19, 2023

There, archaeologists discovered pieces of raw glass, glass-melting furnaces, utilitarian glass vessels and debris from glass-blowing.

From Salon Jun. 15, 2023

My students created fun process stories about niche talents like woodworking and glass-blowing.

From Slate Jun. 8, 2023

If glass-blowing had been a perfectly new invention of Graeco-Egyptian or Roman times, some specimens illustrating the transition from core-moulding to blowing must have been discovered.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various

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