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James Mongrain (b. 1968 or 1969 (age 55–56) [1]) is a Seattle-area glass artist.He was educated at Moorhead State University in Minnesota, then studied glassblowing at Massachusetts College of Art and Design and the Appalachian Center for Crafts. [2]
In 1968, Labino's book Visual Art in Glass [15] became the first book to be written about the studio glass movement. It was followed in 1971 by Glassblowing: A Search for Form, by Harvey K. Littleton. [16] Through the university's glass program, Littleton taught many who became prominent glass artists, and who, in turn, spread the word about ...
The simplest cane, called vetro a fili [3] (glass with threads) is clear glass with one or more threads of colored (often white) glass running its length. It is commonly made by heating and shaping a chunk of clear, white, or colored glass on the end of a punty, and then gathering molten clear glass over the color by dipping the punty in a ...
A stage in the manufacture of a Bristol blue glass ship's decanter.The blowpipe is being held in the glassblower's left hand. The glass is glowing yellow. As a novel glass forming technique created in the middle of the 1st century BC, glassblowing exploited a working property of glass that was previously unknown to glassworkers; inflation, which is the expansion of a molten blob of glass by ...
Greg and John Franklin perform a glass-blowing task during 'The Amazing Race 35' finale. It's been an arduous journey on The Amazing Race 35.But after a westward voyage through Asia and Europe ...
The company was incorporated in 2001. In 2003, Rhodes set up a glassblowing studio in Seattle’s old Vitamilk Dairy building, since demolished. [4] In September 2005, Rhodes appeared on Martha Stewart's television show, which led to a significant increase in sales. [5] Also in 2009, Jeff Bezos purchased a 22 percent stake in glassybaby. A ...
Scientific glassblowing is a specialty field of lampworking used in industry, science, art and design used in research and production. Scientific glassblowing has been used in chemical, pharmaceutical, electronic and physics research including Galileo's thermometer, Thomas Edison's light bulb, and vacuum tubes used in early radio, TV and computers.
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