The craft of making glassware by blowing air into semi-molten glass through a long tube.
玻璃吹制（术）
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Traditional Lebanese crafts include basketry, carpet weaving, ceramics and pottery, copper-and metalworking, embroidery, glass-blowing, and gold-and silversmithing.
It can withstand heavy traffic without significant wear and can handle the high temperatures in the glass-blowing facilities.
In the 17th century, we learn of the introduction of smoking tobacco and after that there is an impressive display about 18th century Waterford, glass-blowing and the Georgian legacy in architecture.
Like several of Taiwan's other localized festivals - Hsinchu's glass-blowing and Hualien's marble - sculpting festivals - the Steel and Iron Festival features art that draws on materials once vital to its local economy.
Cultivate an unusual talent like bellydancing or glass-blowing and start a new career.
Visitors looking for a less ‘interactive’ attraction can pay a visit to Langkawi Crystal, Malaysia's only glass-blowing factory, which is several kilometres north of the capital Kuah.
Glass vessels were known in the Ancient world and became common during Roman times, when the techniques of glass-blowing spread throughout the Roman empire.
For many years, I've been longing to try what I saw as one of the most difficult crafts of all: glass-blowing.
At the funfair, visitors will also have the opportunity to view the traditional art of Italian glass-blowing.
A glass-blowing demonstration at the Science Festival showed how, with skill and steady hands, glass can be coaxed into a vast array of different pieces.
Although the bottom of the ‘hookah’ was earthen in the beginning, it turned into glass once glass-blowing became an innovative technique.
In the afternoon there is time to explore the city, or join excursions to the famous food market beside the Rialto Bridge and the glass-blowing factories on the island of Murano.
Interestingly, the blow pipe wasn't invented until the 1st century BC and so glass-blowing is unknown before then.
Derivatives
glass-blower
nounˈɡlɑːsˌbləʊə
Then you can stroll around the special interest shops, spend time in one of the three excellent small galleries, or watch the glass-blowers or ceramcists in action.
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His was made from glass by a glass-blower who made laboratory equipment, test-tubes, pipettes and so on.
He's now a scientific glass-blower at the university and repairs broken laboratory equipment and makes specialised glassware.
The way she puts it, though, ‘At this point I'm primarily a glass-blower and a painter.’
It is notable in the fact that she grew up around a very old glass works, and in fact, her father is a third generation glass-blower.