Low Dish CMOG 62.1.50

In the initial stages of the glassblowing, there is little difference between the making of a bowl and a dish. It is only at the opening stage that the two processes diverge. The video commences with the the Roman foot completed and concludes with the opening process used to create the final profile of the dish.
In Jerusalem, sometime about 40 B.C., it was discovered that molten glass could be inflated. To make this phenomenon useful and practical, manufacturing processes had to be invented. This occurred during a rapid expansion of the Roman Empire that eventually included the entire Mediterranean Basin and extended to the far eastern coast: present-day Israel. Through an extensive trade of goods and the widespread movement of people and know-how, glassblowing found its way to the Italian peninsula. It took root and developed quickly. Glassblowing spread to become-then, as now-the predominant method of making glass vessels. Learn more at romanglassblow.... The resource is a follow-up to Gudenrath's popular Techniques of Renaissance Venetian Glassworking (renvenetian.cm...) and Technique of Renaissance Venetian-Style Glassworking (renvenetiansty...)