This video has been created discuss and look at the little bits that you can find embedded in antique and vintage glass. The bits are usually sand, clay, coal, dirt, and soot.
The books and references I show in this video are:
Glass and Glassmaking, authored by Roger Dodsworth
This is the video I mentioned where they show the making of the clay pots for melting glass in and how they get them out of the furnace when they deteriorate:
• thomas webb crystall 1963
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