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<p>[QUOTE="Cherryhill, post: 596411, member: 70"]If I remember, those bowls have a wire mesh imprint, not controlled bubbles.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Picture a pad of small nails, point up, one every quarter inch. The glass blower lowers a gob of hot glass on the pad, imprinting the points of the nails into the glass. He then lifts the gob off the nails (it's got lots of tiny depressions in it) and gathers another layer of hot glass over the gob, trapping the air inside the nail point holes. The pattern is "controlled" by the arrangement of the nails.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Cherryhill, post: 596411, member: 70"]If I remember, those bowls have a wire mesh imprint, not controlled bubbles. Picture a pad of small nails, point up, one every quarter inch. The glass blower lowers a gob of hot glass on the pad, imprinting the points of the nails into the glass. He then lifts the gob off the nails (it's got lots of tiny depressions in it) and gathers another layer of hot glass over the gob, trapping the air inside the nail point holes. The pattern is "controlled" by the arrangement of the nails.[/QUOTE]
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