Definition of "lampworking" [lampworking]

• The process of sculpting glass by twirling thin rods of colored glass over a gas-oxygen burner. (noun)

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• "By now it had a gothic/mideval feel to it, and I wanted to enhance that, so I used a red ribbon with one of the glass beads I made in lampworking class as a bookmark."
• "She creates using a technique called lampworking and melts the glass with a torch before manipulating it with various tools until the desired result is achieved."
• "Dichroic glass can be used in a number of ways from glassblowing (inflating molten glass into a bubble), bead-making (also know as lampworking - this uses a flame and glass rods … my next learning adventure!) and glass fusing (taking two or more pieces of glass and heating them together in a kiln)."