Video from the J. Paul Getty Museum
Ancient glass makers near Jerusalem discovered they could inflate hot glass to make vessels quickly and more cheaply. Watch this ancient technique (footage from the Corning Museum of Glass).
Glassmaking technique: free-blown glass
Cite this page as: The J. Paul Getty Museum, "Glassmaking technique: free-blown glass," in Smarthistory, December 20, 2015, accessed April 10, 2020, https://smarthistory.org/glassmaking-technique-free-blown-glass/.