The master glass blower heats the gather to near a molten state.
Cylinder blown sheet glass.
It is created with a similar process to broad sheet but larger cylinders are produced by swinging the cylinder in a trench.
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This is then rolled to give a flat piece of glass which is cooled slowly to toughen it and remove internal stresses.
The glass cylinder is now ready for flat glass alignment.
The glass is then re heated and flattened.
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First a cylinder of glass is blown and then scored.
This is used for matching existing original cylinder blown or crown glass.
At this temperature the glass will again be in a ductile state and can be flattened into a sheet.
It is created with a similar process to broad sheet but larger cylinders are produced by swinging the cylinder in a trench.
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The glass is then allowed to cool before the cylinder is cut.
Cylinder blown sheet is a type of hand blown window glass.
The glass is then re heated and flattened.
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The ends of the cylinder are heated and cut off.
The glass on the end of the blowpipe.
These methods of manufacture lasted at least until the end of the 19th century.
As a result crown glass was not made in london until 1678.
Blowing in a trough gives the glass a cylindrical shape.
The newly formed sheet will be removed from the oven and returned to the annealing furnace for gradual cooling.
The glass is then allowed to cool before the cylinder is cut.
This allows the cylinder on reheating to flap open.
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The glass was mouth blown into cylinders and then flattened into sheets by hand.
Ready to be blown to size.
It is created with a similar process to broad sheet but larger cylinders are produced by swinging the cylinder in a trench.
It is glazed where existing original glass is broken or where replacement windows are required to match existing sashes in a period building.
The glass is then re heated and flattened.
Cylinder glass is handmade using traditional mouth blowing methods.
This process produced glass containing various imperfections both within the glass and on its surface but was of better quality then previous methods and produced larger panes of glass.
The glass is then allowed to cool before the cylinder is cut.
Cylinder blown sheet is a type of hand blown window glass.
