All About Glass

All About Glass

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Ferdinand II Beaker | Techniques of Renaissance Venetian-Style Glassworking
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This video shows the making of the vessel body and a small blown-foot with a folded edge. At the end of the glassblowing processes, a fin-mold is used to transform the upper-half of the vessel and the rim from a round to hexagonal shape. Learn more about this object in The Techniques of Renaissance