lampworking
flameworking
torchworking

Beads can be pressed, or made with traditional lampworking techniques.

New lampworking techniques led to artistic applications such as contemporary glass marbles.

The process is called lampworking.

Early lampworking was done in the flame of an oil lamp, with the artist blowing air into the flame through a pipe.

Lampworking is a type of glasswork where a torch or lamp is primarily used to melt the glass.

Lampworking is used to create artwork, including beads, figurines, marbles, small vessels, Christmas tree ornaments, and much more.

A variant of the wound glass beadmaking technique, and a labor-intensive one, is what is traditionally called lampworking.

Lampworking is also done as art and common items made include goblets, paper weights, pipes, pendants, compositions and figurines.

Hot' glass, glass blowing or lampworking is the working of glass in a direct flame, such as for laboratory glassware and beadmaking.

As oil lamps were replaced by modern gas-fueled torches, lampworking has come to be referred to as flameworking or torchworking.

The Blaschkas practiced lampworking, a glassworking technique in which glass is melted over a flame fed by air from a foot-powered bellows.

Lampworking is used to make complex and custom scientific apparatus; most major universities have a lampworking shop to manufacture and repair their glassware.

There are opportunities to marvel at the versatility of glass by watching demonstrations of glass engraving, lampworking and studio skills in various techniques of glass decoration.

Raw glass used in lampworking comes in glass rods for solid work and glass tubes for hollow work tubes and vessels/containers.

This influence is also evident in the work of Yaffa Sikorsky-Todd of Israel, who has adapted traditional lampworking to create imaginary landscapes in flattened vessel forms.

Pratt includes facilities for glassblowing, lampworking, glass beadmaking, flameworked glass, metal sculpture, bronze casting, stone carving, jewelry and metalsmithing, woodworking, printmaking, painting and drawing.

Soda-lime glass is the traditional mix used in blown furnace glass, and lampworking glass rods were originally hand-drawn from the furnace and allowed to cool for use by lampworkers.

Lampworking can be done with many types of glass, but the most common are soda-lime glass and lead glass, both called "soft glass," and borosilicate glass, often called "hard glass."

In 1990, Mdina Glass introduced lampworking techniques to Malta, and by 1995 its artisans were also honing their skills in applying the newly introduced fusion techniques to a whole new range of products.

In many ways, flameworking has become to glass art what drawing is to works on paper.

The two put together the first international exhibition devoted to contemporary flameworking, which features 25 artists from six countries.

Experience the heat of the furnace and watch the artists demonstrate glassblowing and flameworking.

Methods taught include glassblowing, flameworking, kiln casting, hot sculpting, engraving, cold working, fusing, gilding, sandblasting and more.

While attending Holyoke Community College, Peters began glassblowing and later studied flameworking at Snow Farm, a craft school based in Williamsburg, MA.