"It takes 14 hours of labor to produce each glass."
"Continuous innovation drives the glass making industry forward."
"Lead's softness allows it to easily form the strips around each piece of glass."
"Glassmakers had privileged social status. Even their daughters were allowed to marry into the most wealthiest and powerful families."
"We're here on the amphitheater floor at the Corning Museum of Glass, an amazing place that glass gods of all kinds have graced."
"The history of glass making dates back to at least 3,600 years ago to Mesopotamia."
"We're going to put it through a very slow cooling process that's called annealing."
"Most studios will melt clear glass because when you have clear, you can add different colors through the process very conveniently."
"When sculpting glass using a torch, it's a great way to achieve good fine detail."
"We spend most of our lives as glass makers standing in front of those 2,100 degree Fahrenheit furnaces."
"Welcome to the amphitheater hot shop here at the Corning Museum of Glass."
"It's going to be an amazing afternoon of glass making."
"Managing temperature is absolutely crucial to what both of these guys are doing here."
"We're sort of hearkening back to some older glass making traditions but really putting a new spin on things here."
"Because glass expands with heat and contracts with cooling, it's crucial the glass is cooled slowly and evenly at the end of the process; we call that annealing."
"Now one other thing about glass is you can't rush it; you have to operate at the speed the material requires."
"Annealing is that slow, even cooling, making sure all the stress is taken out of the glass so it's more stable once it's cool."
"The key to managing glass is managing the temperature."
"Amongst glass makers, we are going to communicate with each other by saying, I made a piece of glass and it was four gathers."
"Glass making is very much a team-oriented art form."
"I wanted to create a space that was completely supportive, where everyone was working together to get better at glass and make the price affordable for anybody in the world."
"It's a lot of science, but that's one of my favorite parts of glass."
"It is with great reverence and appreciation for Murano's craft heritage that I imitate and practice this art form."
"One of these pieces in particular grabbed the attention of the island's glass makers for its elegant design and technical challenges."
"Now the glass that we're using is a soda lime glass, a silica sand soda ash, and limestone."
"When making glass there's lots of teamwork and rarely do you do this by yourself."
"Welcome to Corning Museum of Glass and our amphitheater hot shop."
"Welcome to our amphitheater hot glass show."
"My name is Chris Rochelle, I'm one of the glass makers here at the museum."
"I'll be creating a couple different pieces, goblets with air twist patterns in them."
"Gravity is a very good tool for glass making."
"The traditions of glass making in Corning here are very much the traditions of Swedish glass making."
"There's no one who's working in the world of glass who you can't learn something from."
"We're always up to something, and just the way that the museum has integrated this live glassmaking programming into the exhibits that we do and the glass that's on display."
"We're not just reflecting on what's happened in glass, we're having an impact on where glass is going."
"It was absolutely successful from that standpoint."
"And we retraced the steps of the Brooklyn Flint Glassworks coming to Corning through the Erie Canal way system, the super highway of 150 years ago."
"If you've ever wondered why am I in Corning, what am I doing here, and why is this a glass town? It's because of coal."
"Celebrating 150 years of glass making here in Corning, and it really is bringing us exactly to where we are today."
"Glass goblets have been made a long time, Egyptians made glass goblets well before glassblowing."
"I'm at my absolute happiest when I'm making glass."
"Glass has driven the technology of windows as much as anything else."
"Our glass is about the same temperature as active lava that's coming out of a volcano."
"You can make your own glass, you can come on out, you can make a flower, you can blow through the blowpipe just like we've been doing here this morning."
"All glass needs to go through a process where it slowly cools in order to reach room temperature."
"There are hundreds of thousands of different glass recipes."
"We talk about the three T's of glassmaking: timing, temperature, and teamwork."
"Glass blowing meant that the glass factories of the Roman Empire could produce things inexpensive enough for most people to own."
"It's as close as the glassmaker ever comes to shaping the glass just like you would shape clay on a potter's wheel."
"I'm thankful it didn't work out because she is a wonderful glass maker, a wonderful artist."
"We're celebrating the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of glass making coming to Corning next year."
"Annealing simply means to cool down properly."
"Glass is made out of sand, everybody's heard that, right?"
"Let's see how hard it is to make the glass reactor glass."