glass-blowing
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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
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
As she was a living link with the glass-blowing past, he surely would have got more than a hint of it.
From BBC • Jul. 2, 2022
If the crack proceeds very irregularly, and especially if it tends to extend along the tube, the glass has been badly annealed, and should not be employed for glass-blowing purposes.
From The Methods of Glass Blowing and of Working Silica in the Oxy-Gas Flame For the use of chemical and physical students by Shenstone, W. A.
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