Hand tools built to gather, shape and finish molten glass, the implement set behind this atlas's Glass craft subcategory. Belongs here: the blowpipe, used to gather and inflate molten glass; the marver, the flat surface used to shape a gather; and the punty, the rod used to hold a piece while its blowpipe end is finished. Does not belong here: the kiln, which this atlas groups under Ceramics and Pottery Tools even though a glass studio also uses a kiln or furnace, because the live kiln entity here specifically supports pottery firing.
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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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