Glassblowing: Books

Includes: Basic techniques (incl.gathering, blowing, blocking, marvering, papering, necking, trimming; how to make various shapes: bowls, vases, rondels, feel, handles); teamwork, punties, color, Venetian-style techniques (see list on p. 133), solidworking, mold-blowing, special techniques (paperweights, rings, holes, coils, etc.); resource information, glossary

Contents: The basics -- Studio equipment -- Studio movement -- Gathering -- The punty -- Centering -- The marver -- Blowing -- Jacking -- Heat control -- The basic bubble -- Six basic shapes -- Bits, wraps & feet -- Spins, swings & spirals -- Assisting -- Molds -- Color -- Fifty fixes.

Notes: "Written for students, potters and glassmakers working individually or in small studios."

Includes instructions for glory holes, glass melting furnaces, annealers and slumpers, accessories.

Contents: Introduction -- Glass : the material -- Founding and batch melting -- Pelletised batch -- Cullet melting -- The furnace -- Equipment and tools -- The blowing process : gathering -- Attaching a handle -- Air twists -- Threading -- Blowing into moulds -- Ceramic shell moulds -- Canes and threads -- Cased glass -- Antique glass -- Bullions -- Batch for modifying bottle cullet -- The melting process -- Temperature/viscosity terms -- Some observations on furnaces and founding -- Reduction -- Annealing and compatibility -- Seeds, stones and cords -- Stones -- Cords -- Colloids -- Colour -- Glass colorants -- Ruby glass -- Iridescence -- Enamels -- Roll-on enamels -- Transfers (decals) -- Sandblasting -- Sandcasting -- Aventurines -- Opal glass -- Various glass recipes -- Materials which may be lost by becoming volatile -- Safety -- Fumes -- Safety in handling chemicals -- Safety relating to the use of bottled gas -- Burner control and safety systems -- Batch calculations -- Conversion factors for raw materials -- Conversion factors for measures -- Approximate anaylsis of various refractories -- Approximate calorific values of fuels -- Chemical elements -- List of suppliers -- Organisations and societies.

Includes: The studio and equipment -- Making solid glass objects -- Making blown objects -- Advanced stemware -- Troubleshooting -- Using colour -- Glossary.

4th edition differs significantly from the 3rd.

Swedish glass making. "This volume represents an updated and revised English translation of the second Swedish edition of 'Bokem om glas."
Contents: What is glass? -- Raw materials -- The melting and annealing -- Furnaces and refractories -- Process control -- How do you colour glass? -- Types of glass -- Glassmaking -- Finishing and decoration -- Quality and defects -- The environment -- A history of Swedish glass.

Contents: Tool/image key -- Views at the bench -- Clean the studio -- Make and prepare a newspaper -- Bench torch, leaf burner, bushy torch -- Hot torch, hand torches -- Annealing and loading -- Clean the tools -- How to prevent bubbles in the furnace -- Remove bubbles and stones from a gather of glass -- Clogged blowpipes -- Gather glass -- Pipe cooler -- Starter bubble -- Dog ears/Saturn ring/bat wings -- How to prevent an off-center bubble -- Heating in the glory hole -- How to work an off-center bubble -- How to maintain a thick bottom -- Holes -- Jack line -- How to shield... -- Flatten the bottom -- Punty -- Punty shapes to avoid -- The transfer -- Fuse together a cracked vessel after the transfer -- Get the chips out -- Center the punty after the transfer -- Trim the lip -- Open the lip -- Centering with the soffietta -- Avoid unwanted trips to the dentist -- Flash it down -- Remove a dome punty -- Additional punties -- Color -- Color overlay -- Peeling punty -- How color and thickness affect the working time and temp of the glass -- Shapes.

Includes history and contemporary techniques of glassmaking.
Contents
Glassets historie -- Hvad er glas? -- Farve -- Ovne, smeltning og temperatur -- Værktøj og hjælpemidler -- Forarbejgning/blæst form -- Afspænding/afkøling -- Andre varme og halvvarme teknikker -- Koldglasteknikker -- Stikordsregister.