We started day two at
Paul Wissmach Glass in Paden City, West Virginia. Wissmach makes colored glass sheets for artists to use in stained glass and other application.
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| Carry boys use trolleys to scoop ladles of molten glass. Two ladles are used in each pour. Each ladle comes out of a different comes from a different batch of glass. |
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| The molten glass is mixed together into one molten mass. |
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| The molten glass then goes through rollers, much like a pasta machine, and then is formed into a sheet of glass floating on the table. |
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| Molten glass on the table being rolled out. |
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| Within seconds a worker runs a metal knife under the glass to separate it from the table and pushes it into the annealing oven. |
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| Cooled sheets of stained glass exiting the annealing oven and ready to be cut. |
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| Part of Wissmach's inventory of glass. They have over 5000 colors in their inventory. |
Questions:
1. The chemistry of glass making is the same, but the process is different from what we have studied before with blowing glass. Compare and contrast Wissmach and Fenton.
2. What are some places you have seen stained glass before?
3. What are some other uses you can imagine for stained glass?
Great pictures Joe. The questions will help the students to learn about the different styles to glass making.
ReplyDeleteExcellent documentation of the process of making a stained glass pane with good thought questions for students.
ReplyDeleteI like how you showed the process through still pictures. I should try that on one of my posts
ReplyDeleteI agree with Bekka. Love the process in pictures.
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