Glassblowing Workshop: Pulling Filigrana Cane

Students will create glass cane with a colored center encased in crystal. Cane can be used to create stripes, spirals, herringbone, and other patterns on vessels, as well as to create bundled murrini (patterned glass tiles) and fused plates. Students will learn to pick up color bar that has been preheated in the annealer, heat it, shape it, and gather over it. Once it is the appropriate size, shape, and temperature, students will work in teams to pull the mass into a long, even strand of filigrana cane.