In this video [Jimmy the torch] starts off very conversational. At about 2:30 things shift a bit. Some music starts up, the camera work gets a little more serious, and the real glass blowing begins.

Most 13-year-olds wouldn’t ask for a glass-blowing torch for their birthday. But Penn Township native Caitlin Dolhi isn’t like most 13-year-olds. Dolhi, an eighth grade student at Penn Middle ...

Seated at his workbench, Jim Downey uses a blow torch to melt colored glass rods onto a second glass rod to craft a small sea turtle, drop by drop. He's focused, but with almost 40 years of experience ...

Borosilicate glass blown in this way is melted down in front of a torch that heats up to 3,500 degrees, as rods attached to the glass are kept constantly turning.

The orange flame can be mesmerizing. Whether it is from a torch or the reheating area in a machine with a round opening called a glory hole, glass blowers wear protective glasses to stare into it ...

David Gappa, owner of Vetro Glass Blowing Studio in Grapevine, shapes a piece of glass into a rondel while using a gas fire torch. Glass blower Spencer Crouch uses tweezers to twist the color in ...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - The Burlington Glass Blowing Challenge is a competition for everyone. And people at the Bern Gallery say that it’s what makes what they do there special. “That has ...

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Master Instructor of Glass Leonard Marty polishes the bottom of a piece using a blow-torch. ... An audience of about 75 people watch as Marty leads a glass blowing demonstration.

With the blaze of his torch, this crafter spins solid glass into pendants and marbles. Glass blowing is a skill that Bradley Tubbs of Aiken has been developing over the last 15 years. He owns the ...

I have been fascinated with the art of glass blowing ever since I looked in the little black storage case of one of the Hash Bash street vendors and had the dreaded hippie tell me how the ...

Alana and Hannah are best friends and second-generation glass-blowing artists, carrying the torch from Alana's dad. In the "Word of Mouth" segment above, they share their story and highly unique ...