There may be people who remember a little video I made with the brilliant Ed Prosser for the Royal Institution in the run up to the Christmas Lectures. In that video is showed off some #glassblowing spectacles made of didymium glass. #chemistry #elements https://youtu.be/6Ul8CmUkO4E 1/n

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The “Etnika: Ukrainian Folk #Arts and Crafts” event showed off #Ukraine cultural traditions like #glassblowing, egg-painting, white-on-white #embroidery, painted #ceramics

“Unfortunately, not all foreigners know us – Ukrainians. The war has made its own adjustments. But apart from the war, we must show that our nation was not created yesterday, but has a long tradition,” Ulyana Khromyak, an expert on creative industries and Deputy Director UkraineInvest

Read more here https://www.kyivpost.com/post/22154

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Trying to figure out if the following would be feasible using preindustrial techniques:

1. create a small, trasparent glass sphere, then etch markings on the surface
2. coat the sphere with another layer of glass without distorting the markings (e.g. by using glass with a lower melting point or filling the etch marks with, say quartz dust)
3. etch this new surface with similar markings
4. repeat 2 & 3 as needed to build layers of markings.

Anyone?

Set up a new tool: a flameworking torch (since I can't really set up a furnace and hot shop in my garage). Now to find out just how rusty my flameworking skills are. #glassblowing

In the way back times I took a glass blowing class in college. I loved being in that glass hut in the freezing NH winter. I wasn’t great at glass blowing. The potential burns were a deterrent for me. But I love this little paperweight of a mini vase for all the wonder I experienced watching everyone blow glass. #ArtAdventCalendar #glassart #GlassBlowing

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