Craft, Trades & Making · Traditional & Heritage Crafts
A topic within Traditional & Heritage Crafts, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Craft, Trades & Making.
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Victoria and Albert Museum
Shows that glass-blowing is governed by heat management above all: the piece must be kept moving and repeatedly reheated, so the maker is working against cooling rather than shaping at leisure.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Bernard D. Bolas
Teaches flame-worked glass manipulation as a distinct skilled trade in its own right, arguing that a scientist who can blow their own apparatus works faster and cheaper than one who orders it made.
about 75 minutes to readlink checked 17 Sept 2026