If that’s too high brow for you, yes, there is a makeshift furnace they use they call a “glory hole.” Glass blowing is nothing if not earthily erotic. Photo: Netflix ...

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For the Khalifeh family, glass blowing is in their blood. Tucked away in a courtyard, under the shade of pomegranate and orange trees, their old forge still produces glass in a furnace that dates ...

Glass-blowers are risk takers, says Kudel, and glass-blowing is the adrenaline sport of the art world. “It is dangerous. You can get burned, you can hurt yourself.

Here, discarded glass is made molten in the furnace, blown into bubbles and shaped into amazing artistic objects.

Murano glass originated in Italy and can be worth decent money today if the work is authentic -- and the real stuff is more ...

Patrick Primeau started blowing glass over 20 years ago, after walking into a glass shop. He never thought he'd find himself on a Netflix competition show, but that's exactly what happened.

Netflix’s “Blown Away” winner Deborah Czeresko had to explain what a glass-blowing “glory hole” was to octagenarian philanthropist Barbara Tobe.

David Gappa, left, owner of Vetro Glass Blowing Studio in Grapevine, places a piece of glass in a furnace to heat at 2100 degrees so it can be shaped. Spencer Crouch, a glass blower works with David.