Wimberly Glassworks
We started off our field trip to Wimberley Glassworks to watch an unbelievable glass making demonstration. Today's demo: green and purple lamp shade. In less than 30 minutes we watched them gather a drop of melted glass heated to a temperature over 2000 degrees, rolled, shaped, broken colored glass added, melted again, reshaped, more air, more color...until it became a gorgeous lamp shade and placed in another oven to cool for the next 24 hours. WOW!
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