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Updated: June 14, 2025
The low and steady roar of the flames was varied by the occasional sharp click of iron or the soft sound of hot glass rolling on the marver, or by the hiss of a metal instrument plunged into water to cool it. Every man had an apprentice to help him, and two boys tended the fire.
With incredible speed the blower flattened its base upon a marver or table topped with sheet iron. A short iron rod or pontil was next fastened to the middle of the bottom of the pitcher in order that the blower might hold it, and after this had been done the blow-pipe was detached.
She stopped, finally, close by the marver of a young man boy she called him to herself the precision of whose workmanship was that of a machine. He was shaping a slender, long-stemmed, pitcher-like vase made in three parts, foot, body and handle, afterwards joining them in one exquisitely fine whole, after the manner of the Clichy crystal ware.
Without a word Zorzi took his place. While he warmed the end of his blow-pipe at the 'bocca' he looked to right and left to see where the working-stool and marver were placed, and to be sure that the few tools he needed were at hand, the pontil, the 'procello, that is, the small elastic tongs for modelling and the shears.
I'm blessed if I believe they even think of us as men at all just lump us off with the machinery, like. One man, one blowpipe, one marver and the man least 'count of all." The other chuckled softly, then waved his hand towards a group of shapely cottages off at the right.
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