Caroline AbbeyGlassworks

About / Process

Inside the studio.

Watch glass being shaped in the studio and see the finished pieces from different angles.

Short studio films. Choose a film to play. New: how a glass pumpkin is made.

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12 films

Autumn / 40 sec · with music

How a glass pumpkin is made

From the furnace to the finished pumpkin: gathering, reheating in the glory hole, shaping at the bench and finishing with a torch.

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Autumn / 29 sec

Adding the stem

Hot glass is pulled and curled onto a green pumpkin, then finished with a torch.

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Cane pulling / 52 sec

Pulling candy-striped cane

Glassworkers pull hot, striped glass into a long cane. The red-and-white stripes look like candy canes.

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Artwork / 9 sec

Dancing Pants, in motion

A view of the blue glass pants from the front, side and back.

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Autumn / 11 sec

Giving a pumpkin its form

The glowing orange form is turned at the bench and worked on the pipe.

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Autumn / 39 sec

The finishing curl

Hot glass is drawn into a stem, cut, and shaped above the pumpkin.

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Studio / 11 sec

Back to the heat

The glass goes back into the furnace during shaping.

Studio / 35 sec

Shaping hot glass

Caroline turns the pipe as she works the glass. The clip shows her rolling it on the table and blowing into the pipe.

Studio / 12 sec

At the glass bench

An excerpt from a glassworking demonstration.

Details / 8 sec

Green glass, close up

A pale green glass form turning on the pipe.

Details / 7 sec

Pattern in the round

A close view of a patterned glass form as it turns.

Autumn / 6 sec

Color before the finish

A multicolored glass form turns on the pipe.

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