one of which does not involve blowing at all. Glass made by the latter process is called plate glass. The glasses made by the two systems which require blowing are called respectively " crown ...

the glass-blowing process and hot casting. The hot shop houses three work benches, three reheating chambers, two furnaces, an assortment of front- and top-loading kilns, community hand tools, pipes ...

Varieties of form and pattern may be attained "by this method which are impossible in the blowing process, and the larger portion of goblets, salt-cellars, and other glass table ware, in common ...

Around the kilns are a dozen seats and a small bleacher where groups can get a great view of the Murano glass blowing process ...

Artist Dale Chihuly has become synonymous with reimagining what glass can do. Having long ago stopped blowing glass himself, at 75, he heads an art world enterprise at his Seattle studio.