A Comprehensive Classic Guide for Glassblowing Technique
This deluxe reprint Legacy Edition of Paul N. Hasluck's Traditional Glass Working Methods WIth Blowing, Heat, And Abrasion (previously published as "Glass Working By Heat And By Abrasion" in 1913) is full of old-time tips and methods for learning the glassblowing and glass manufacturing arts and for making your own beautiful glass works using tools in the traditional way. Originally published in 1913, this handy little guide touches on every aspect of the glassblowing process and its various methods, including how to make your own glass!
Hasluck describes many essential aspects of glassblowing and glass forming practice, including a discussion on all the tools used by classic glassblowers before high technology, how to manipulate and blow glass tubing, how to blow bulbs and flasks, how to create joints in bulbs and tubes, how to etch and sand glass for decoration, how to emboss sheet glass, how to bore and rivet glass, how to use telescope specula, how to turn, chip, and grind glass, and how to manufacture glass - with various recipes for different types of glass!
This book makes a perfect gift for aspiring or expert glass blowers and glassworkers, DIYers, traditional crafters, homesteaders, and handcrafters of all kinds!
A part of the Hasluck's Traditional Skills Library: Volume 6
This Doublebit Legacy Edition reprint of Traditional Glass Working Methods WIth Blowing, Heat, And Abrasion is professionally restored and presented from the original source with the highest degree of fidelity possible. Readers can enjoy this Legacy Edition for generations to come and learn from its timeless knowledge for years to come.
About the Doublebit Press Legacy Edition Reprint Collection
Sometimes we need to remember our history to move forward. Sometimes, remembering our heritage is just fun or inspirational. But sometimes, remembering the old ways of doing things gives a human component to handcrafts and traditional arts. With technology playing a major role in everyday life, sometimes we need to take a step back in time to find those basic building blocks used for gaining mastery - the things that we have luckily not completely lost and has been recorded in books over the last two centuries. These skills aren't forgotten, they've just been shelved. It's time to unshelve them once again and reclaim the lost knowledge of self-sufficiency!
As a part of the Doublebit Press Legacy Edition Reprints Collection, this unabridged Legacy Edition volume is reprinted in the exact form as it was presented in the original publication. Both important and minor details have equally both been accounted for by our publishing staff, down to the cover, font, layout, and images. It is the goal of Doublebit Legacy Edition series to preserve outdoors heritage, but also be cherished as collectible pieces, worthy of collection in any homesteader's, handcrafter's, or outdoorsperson's library and that can be passed to future generations.