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Sketches for glass pendant shades

— Sketches for glass shades

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— Credit: Rothschild & Bickers

Checking the diameter of a glass shade during glassblowing

— Making a Flask Shade

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— Checking the diameter with calipers

— Credit: Rothschild & Bickers

Trimming the edge of the molten shade during glassblowing

— Making a Flask Shade

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— Trimming the edge of the molten shade

— Credit: Rothschild & Bickers

Making new products 2016 Rothschild & Bickers

— Making a Flask Shade

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— Creating the final shape of a Flask Shade

— Credit: Rothschild & Bickers

Glassblowing studio showing the hot workshop equipment

— Hot workshop

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— Credit: Simon Camper

Mark Bickers using a wooden block to form the glass

— Glassblowing studio

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— Credit: Paul Beggy

Two glassblowers in a working studio with a hot glass form

— Marie & Steffan glassblowing

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— Credit: Mark Bickers

A glassblower torching the end of a blown form in a workshop

— Torching a shade

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Trapped bubble glass being heated in a glory hole

— Making a Bubble Light

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— Credit: Simon Camper

molton glass on the end of a glassblower's iron

— Gathered glass on an iron

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Snipping molten coloured glass in Rothschild & Bickers studio

— Cutting the colour

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Tools sparking on the outside of a handblown glass form

— Shaping a Pick-n-Mix Pot

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Glassblower's tools on the bench

— A bench with tools

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— Credit: Paul Beggy

Mark Bickers & Steffan Jelley work together on a handblown glass light

— Mark & Steffan making

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— Credit: Simon Camper

Green glass ball being coldworked on a flatbed machine

— A shade on the flatbed sander

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— Credit: Simon Camper

Shaping hot molten glass with a pad of wet newspaper

— Forming with wet newspaper

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— Credit: Simon Camper

Mark & Steffan creating a glass shade

— Blowing into a glassblower’s iron

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Mark Bickers checking the diameter of handblown glass form with calipers

— Checking a shade with calipers

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— Credit: Simon Camper

Lining up a punty iron during glassblowing

— Attaching a punty

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Glassblowers creating a hole in a ball using a torch

— Opening a torched hole

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— Credit: Simon Camper