Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The process of making glassware and window-glass by taking a mass of viscid glass from the melting-pot on the end of a blowing-tube and inflating it by blowing through the tube.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The art and process of creating glass objects, by shaping glass when reduced by heat to a viscid state, using various manipulations with the hands, especially by inflating it by blowing through a tube. The process is used to manufacture a wide variety of useful and ornamental objects. The manufacture of simple glass objects has been automated, but complex glass objects are still made by the traditional hand processes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The art of making objects from
molten glass , especially by manipulating a lump of molten glass on the end of atube whilstblowing into it.
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Examples
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Thanks to such prominent artists as Archimede Seguso, Ludovico and Laura De Santillana, Tobia Scarpa, Ercole Barovier, Fulvio Bianconi, Toni Zuccheri, Romano Chrivi, Giampaolo Martinuzzi, and Alfredo Barbini, Murano again became known as the glassblowing capital of the world.
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Flameworking is the small kind of glassblowing, starting with tubes or rods of glass and bending them or melting them to create beautiful objects.
Archive 2007-08-01 Heather McDougal 2007
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Flameworking is the small kind of glassblowing, starting with tubes or rods of glass and bending them or melting them to create beautiful objects.
The Allure of Hot Glass Heather McDougal 2007
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Many other specialties, such as glassblowing, candy making, circus performing, and fireworks, are passed down through families.
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Many other specialties, such as glassblowing, candy making, circus performing, and fireworks, are passed down through families.
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The machine shop was cut significantly several years ago, and Sandia did away with its specialized skills such as glassblowing and blacksmithing.
unknown title 2009
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* (Editor's note: When I say "glassblowing", I am referring specifically to what is called "hot glass", rather than "flameworking".
The Allure of Hot Glass Heather McDougal 2007
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* (Editor's note: When I say "glassblowing", I am referring specifically to what is called "hot glass", rather than "flameworking".
Archive 2007-08-01 Heather McDougal 2007
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Chang got into cooking originally, he says, because it seemed like “the last honorable profession,” a job like shoemaking or glassblowing where quality and craftsmanship mattered.
The Sorcerer’s Apprentices Lisa Abend 2011
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The hardest to maintain were the glassblowing studios because of the costs.
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