Description
One of a Kind
These hand blown glass cylinder vases are beautiful decor pieces for your home. Ready for a fresh bouquet of flowers or paired with a matching bottle stopper, they make excellent wine chillers. Created in a range of colors, including Robbins Ranch mixes, dichroic chards on opaque colors, or one of kind scenes on our field of flowers designs. Pieces shown here are examples of our work. We do have some items in stock but most pieces are made to order. You can check our Etsy Shop for cylinders we have ready to ship. If you do not find what you are looking for, please contact us to place an order.
About our Process
As we dip into a tank of molten glass, we gather clear on the end of a blow pipe. Carefully bringing the gather to the marving table, we roll into a pile of concentrated color chips. Rolling several times and reheating, we create a layer of color on top of the clear.
Next we take another gather of clear encasing the color and adding volume to the piece. Depending on the design we might take several gathers of color and clear, layering and reheating between each layer. As we create this blown glass cylinder, we continually put the blowpipe into the glory hole, to keep the glass hot and viscous.
We shape the hot glass with wooden blocks soaked in water and cradle the molten gather forming the hot glass into a round ball. Then we can start a bubble of air in the center of the gather by blowing on the end of the blowpipe. The glass gather begins to grow from the inside out. As the form is moving and becoming larger, we continue to shape it with steel jacks and other various tools to create a cylinder form.
Once we have completed the basic form, we bring a solid pipe with a bit of hot clear on the end, over to the vase. We quickly stick the bit to the top of the piece and now that becomes the bottom of the piece. The pipe with the bit of clear bonds with the top of the cylinder as we transfer it from blowpipe to a solid metal rod called a punty. After chilling the neck of the vase with cold water, we make a sharp strike on the end of the blowpipe to break the glass off the blowpiple and leave it stuck to the punty rod.
Next we fire polish the break line and finish the top of the vessel. After reheats and tooling, we open up the mouth of the vase to fit the dimensions of a wine bottle. Once the glass opening is the correct size, we can safely remove it from the punty and put it into the annealing oven to cool overnight. The next day, after a slow cooling cycle, the glass is removed from the oven, and placed on a table to rest. In a few days, the vase is ground level, polished, signed and dated.
