Objects formed from molten or worked glass, chiefly by blowing but also by casting, fusing or lampworking, one of the American Craft Council's own discipline categories. Belongs here: glassblowing as a practiced craft and its landmark tools, the blowpipe, marver and punty, along with the makers, studios and glass schools whose primary discipline is glass. Does not belong here: ceramics, which shares a furnace-and-wheel adjacent tool culture but works an entirely different material.
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In the first century BC, Phoenician and Syrian craftsmen developed the technique of blowing air into molten glass with a blowpipe.
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