Glass Blowing

Link to Tamada's Glass Flow (玉田ガラス工房)

Furnace; The oven holds melted glass at 1150 degrees.
The melted glass is shining.


Glass Blowing; The hot glass is blown to form a globe.


Glory hole; The oven heated to 1100 degrees used to bring the glass
back to a softened state (re-heating) for continued manipulation.


Forming; Forming glass into the cup.


This glass blowing method was innovated at the Roman empire.
This is the Roman glass which formed nearly two thousands years ago.

Those are Roman glass works found around Pompei, Napoli archeological museam.

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My hand-made glass inspired by ROMAN glass.

Folded glass pipe looks like U-shape, is it usable?

Original was formed by CORE-glass method using comb 2500 years ago.

I applied same method for those pots.

The show of my works was held from July the 2nd to 7th at Eda ceramic art club.

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