Dig Deeper | Glass Waste at the Wood-Fired Furnace

In this video created for the special exhibition Dig Deeper: Discovering an Ancient Glass Workshop, watch our Hot Glass team generate drops of glass, hooked glass, threads of glass, moils, and folded glass waste at a custom-built replica ancient glassblowing furnace.
Debris from glassblowing like these drops were found at the 4th-century glassblowing workshop of Jalame, excavated by the Corning Museum of Glass and University of Missouri. They provide key information about the way glass was blown in the ancient world.

[@KholtiSylvia]

great videos, I would be very happy to learn about how specific types of glasses are made like this "wild" glass that we can see in these videos.

[@Just1Nora]

With the title, "Dig Deeper" I was honestly expecting a talk about reusing the slag glass. IMO: Some of these could be sold as sculptural objects and the smaller pieces incorporated into jewelry.