Sunday, 20 May 2012

Glass Blowing: 'Humbug'

Yesterday I was blowing some of my new 'Humbug' pieces at the University of Sunderland.  I use the process of pulling cane to get stripes and rolling these up on a glass body, which I then blow out and shape.  The canes are therefore on the outer layer so I can grind through them with circular lenses. 

Blowing the cup for the cane

Shaping the cup
Preparing the centre of cane to stuff cup with



Marvering the cup onto the centre

Cane rolled up, and marvering into shape


Necking in

Final touches to form

2 comments:

  1. Yey, you back on blowing! So nice to see the process of making. Lovely surface pattern too. :)

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