Explore: Lampwork

Lampworking is a type of glasswork in which a torch or lamp is used to melt the glass. Once in a molten state, the glass is formed by blowing and shaping

These workers were paid on a piecework basis for the resulting lampwork beads. Modern lampwork beads are made by using a gas torch to heat a rod of glass

glass used in lampworking comes in glass rods for solid work and glass tubes for hollow work tubes and vessels/containers. Lampworking is used to make

and lampwork—both techniques that had been around long before the advent of paperweights. In paperweights, the millefiori or sculptural lampwork elements

made by rolling the hot glass in glass powder. Similar to glassblowing, Lampworking (also called flameworking or torchworking) is a style in which the artist

is an East German–born lampwork glass blower, now living and working in the US. Hans Godo Frabel is one of the first lampwork glass artists in the world

compounds are utilized in coloring borosilicate glass used by artists in lampworking. The palette is often referred to as "cadmium colors" or "cadmium-based

glass Murano beads inspired by Venetian glassware. With the advent of lampwork glass, Europeans started producing seed beads for embroidery, crochet,

much heat. Used to permit slow cooling of hot pieces in glassblowing, lampwork, steelwork, and glass beadmaking. Used in in-ground swimming pools to provide

manufacture of steel and monel oxyacetylene welding equipment, glass lampworking torches, and some gas cutting torches, usually in high pressure cylinders