Blue Spooled Bowl Part 2: Blown Glass Pattern Encased in Color by Schunke + Gluck

Welcome back! This is Part Two of our Spooled Glass Bowl process video series. Thanks for watching, feel free to ask questions or leave comments, share with others, and please remember to subscribe!
In our collaborative handblown blown glass bowl series, we (Michael Schunke and Josie Gluck, designers and co-founders of Vetro Vero) layer innovative glass cane and murrini patterns to examine relationships between order and disorder. We frame the patterns within a sheath of contrasting color to expose the space where chaos reveals beauty. The handblown art objects touch on themes of beauty, chaos, and the spectacular mundane.
This video features the second phase in our intensive process to craft a large-scale shallow bowl. In this segment, we fuse the intricately patterned blown glass component (from our last video: • Blue + White Spooled G... ) onto a large blowpipe, positioning it to become an interior core. We gather more hot glass over the core, and encase the pattern in a blue exterior by blowing into a color cup. The combination of the pattern and the color cup becomes a massive core of accumulated molten glass, which will eventually be formed into a substantial showpiece.
Glassblowers will notice that we are constantly cleaning and inspecting the glass. Also note the shape and temperature of the pattern going into the cup, sealing the color over the glass without trapping bubbles, and the scale and temperature of the bubble prepared for a final gather.
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We will demonstrate the final gather from our furnace, and show how we shape and finish the completed handblown glass vessel.
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Music: Frederic Chopin performed by Edward Neeman
Etude Op. 10, no. 8 in F major - ‘Sunshine' CC | PD
Etude Op. 10, no. 12 in C minor - ‘Revolutionary' CC | PD
Etude Op. 10, no. 9 in F minor CC | PD
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[@teebzsie]

where is part 3?

[@virginahiggins7280]

These are wonderful videos and the music works beautifully!! You guys ROCK!!!!!!

[@VetroVeroGlassblowingStudio]

Thanks so much! ❤️

[@esbillingsley]

I'm curious, is there a specific reason the patterned bubble was puntied/put away and picked up on a collar later rather than just being stuffed into a color cup while still on it's original pipe? Only thing I can think of is breaking up the time (that extensive threading/melting in must have taken ages).

[@elizabethwatson71]

Why does he jerk the pipe across the arms of his chair? I’ve watched several videos and I can’t tell if it serves any purpose or if it’s a habit. I’ll go rewatch another video and time the area I’m speaking of...

[@VetroVeroGlassblowingStudio]

Yes, let us know where you see this happening and we’ll do our best to explain!

[@Robellibobban]

Do you mean right about when he's about to sit down and the blowpipe is resting on the arm and is tilted downward a bit? Some of it I'm guessing is just to maneuver himself into the seat and sort of stepping "around" the blowing end of the pipe. But also I think it's to give the glass a little bit of time to elongate, hence the downward tilt.

[@VetroVeroGlassblowingStudio]

the only other thing i can think of is when he wants josie to stop blowing and just moves the pipe away instead of telling her. but i don't think i see that happening here... plus, to your point, @atombob, there is a hefty mass of glass there -- heavy stuff to stretch out without using the rail.