Have a look at my post 21 to get an idea. It’s not strictly glassblowing, which is a larger-scale process. My technique is called lampwork, or lampworking, in which a glass rod is melted in the flame and a hot gather of molten glass wound around a steel mandrel and turned repeatedly in the flame, using heat and gravity to shape it. Where the mandrel is removed that’s where the hole is. It’s great fun! I had to give up my rented workshop because of Covid, so I no longer teach my craft. I do wish I’d kept my website, though! Oh well!
How do you make glass beads at home?? Not blown glass, surely? Now I am curious.
Have a look at my post 21 to get an idea. It’s not strictly glassblowing, which is a larger-scale process. My technique is called lampwork, or lampworking, in which a glass rod is melted in the flame and a hot gather of molten glass wound around a steel mandrel and turned repeatedly in the flame, using heat and gravity to shape it. Where the mandrel is removed that’s where the hole is. It’s great fun! I had to give up my rented workshop because of Covid, so I no longer teach my craft. I do wish I’d kept my website, though! Oh well!
Thanks, Rebecca. I will check it out.