Glass Blowing
A while back, we attended a glass blowing workshop at SiNaCa studios. The staffs are so friendly and kind, they walked us through the whole process. It was so cool and informative to learn how glass was made, and actually got to experience the whole process.
Glass is made from natural and abundant raw materials, which I am quite sure that our instructors have mentioned several names, but for now, all I remember is sand. Then, it is melt at very high temperature at 2000F to form glass.
The molten glass is rolled on a flat marver to control its shape, then dipped in crushed colored glass, which fuses to the main glass piece almost immediately due to the hot temperature.
There is a lot of rolling back and for on the marver, I guess to get the desired mixed of color. To give the glass its final shape and size, it is blown into with a blowpipe, while rotating it on the steel stand at the same time.
The final step is very cool with a steel tweezers [which I googled, and it is called jacks] The glass can be removed from the blowpipe with one solid tap. I had to tap several times till it works :)
It is fun to try something and here are our works!
Voila
