In this video created for the special exhibition Dig Deeper: Discovering an Ancient Glass Workshop, watch our Hot Glass team generate drops of glass, hooked glass, threads of glass, moils, and folded glass waste at a custom-built replica ancient glassblowing furnace.
Debris from glassblowing like these drops were found at the 4th-century glassblowing workshop of Jalame, excavated by the Corning Museum of Glass and University of Missouri. They provide key information about the way glass was blown in the ancient world.