“Believe me, we”d all like to quit pipes and just make sculptures,” Hoffman said adding the finishing touches to a glass chellum, an indiginous smoking tool reappropriated to the medium of glass. But ...

Tomb is a big guy with a goatee and a baseball cap, and he’s getting ready to blow some glass, warming up iron pipes so they don't flake. Once the pipes are hot, they’ll get dipped into the ...

Since 2004, The Bern Gallery has been crafting and selling custom pipes ... notice is a person with a blow torch behind a protective barrier crafting molten glass into custom shapes.

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 ...

Surrounded by hundreds of glass pipes behind display cases, 22-year-old Jay Rod unloads the pipes heâÄôs made onto the head shopâÄôs counter. Rod has been blowing glass for almost two years now, but ...

It's using glass in its soft, molten form and using metal equipment like blow pipes. So, like a straw basically made of metal, and because it's hollow and there's a hole inside, you can blow in ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HAMMOND (WGNO)— Mark Haller, a glass ...

With the widespread acceptance of cannabis usage and surging demand for designer, handcrafted blown glass pipes and bongs, artists like Tako Glass have led the industry, as their works are more ...

TOKYO -- A signature piece by famous Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro titled "Young Woman Blowing a Glass Pipe (poppin)" was discovered for the first time in 44 years, the Tokyo National Museum in ...