2.11 Rolling latticinio into shape on marver

2.13 Heating a shaped and blocked weight

2.14 Gathering glass for dotne

2.16 View of dome while hot

2.17 Reheating weight in glory hole

2.19 Rollingpontil in chair

The piece is then reheated in the glory hole, which can be an opening in the heating oven or a separate fabricated unit [2.17]. This step allows for careful reheating of the glass. Another gather of clear molten glass is then added [2.14] to form the dome of the weight (in the case of furnace work) or the ground (in the case of lampwork). The lamp- worker must now attach a second pontil rod to the base and remove the original one.

From here the final blocking process begins. The worker rolls the pontil rod back and forth across the arms of his glass working chair so that the still-soft glass will not sag or become mis­shapen [2.19]. During this process the weight is

2.22 Giving a sharp tap to pontil