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Glass art refers to individual works of art that are substantially or wholly made of glass. It ranges in size from monumental works and installation pieces to wall hangings and windows to works of art made in studios and factories, including glass jewellery and tableware. A person who blows glass is called a glassblower, glass smith, or gaffer. A lampworker (often also called a glassblower or glassworker) manipulates glass with the use of a torch on a smaller scale, such as in producing precision laboratory glassware out of borosilicate glass.
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Glassblowing is a glass forming technique that involves inflating molten glass into a bubble (or parson) with the aid of a blowpipe (or blow tube). A person who blows glass is called a glassblower, glass smith, or gaffer.
Glass art refers to individual works of art that are substantially or wholly made of glass. It ranges in size from monumental works and installation pieces to wall hangings and windows, to works of art made in studios and factories, including glass jewellery and tableware.
Cullet, broken chunks of glass or waste glass suitable for melting or remelting. Cut glass, cold decoration by cutting with an abrasive wheel. Engraving, shallow cold decoration with a sharp point or small wheel.
Window glass usually has plastic reinforcement on one side to prevent shattering. Try coating the untreated side in epoxy and then cracking the entire pane with a ball-peen hammer or chisel. Let the epoxy work into the cracks and harden. This will create a more improvisational piece of cracked glass art.
There are three main categories of glass art that refer to how the glass piece was made. The three categories are called hot, warm, and cold glass. Every technique used by glass artists to work on glass falls in one of these three categories.