Invention in Early Glassblowing - The Road to Ennion with Bill Gudenrath | Behind the Glass Lecture 

Always great to listen to Bill =)

So glad i found this. Mr. Gudenrath is a very gifted teacher. as well as a sublimely gifted artist in his own right. what an amazing asset for the museum. i would love to make the trip to new york to take a class

The best lecture on glass blowing I've ever attended. Thank you so much. Subscribed now

So excited to have found this. Cheers!

he makes it looks so easy its so amazing.

Didn't expect to watch it all way through... 😎👌

Wonderful lecture, thank you for sharing this

Bill is the Greatest.

This is quite spectacular

His flow in the shop is impeccable !! Great lecture .

watching the glass being made into objects is fascinating!

As entertaining as it is educational - Thanks!

bravo !

where can I find a demonstration of the raw materials used?

Like any great artist he makes it look so smooth, casual and easy. Yet, like a high wire walker, one mistake would be fatal.

In the Q&A Bill mentions comparing the vases when they're in the same room. Did he do this and conclude they came from the same mold? Question 2: Has 3-d scanning of ancient glass objects for comparison been considered?

great lecture, i thoroughly enjoyed it. i'm going to try to buy "5000 thousand years of glass", i hope it's available on amazon.it :)

1:00:41 lined with... sute? Suite? whats the pronunciation ? Thanks for help

It will be interesting to see if those 2 came from the same mold also i would like to know if they had been found in close proximity to eachother if they did come from the same mold.

What is known about the blow pipes that were used for blowing glass? This part of the equation keeps coming To mind, because without that technology we obviously don't have glass blowing. I wonder if the pipes were created by spiral wrapping straps around a mandrel?

I do wish he would give a lecture on how to spot a fake. When it comes to Greco-Roman artifacts fakes are as abundant as the real.

Amazing. I want to learn more from him and his friends who are reproducing and proving what happened.

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I would not jump to the conclusion that glassblowing originated in Jerusalem just because that's where archaeologists discovered the earliest known glassblowing tubes. It's very likely that archaeologists will eventually discover even earlier evidence of glassblowing in an area more prolific in the production of glass vessels such as Syria or Alexandria or Rome. What we know of glass in Israel in general is that it is a rare archaeological find in all pre-Roman ages and even well into the Roman age, and always an import, usually from Egypt, Syria, or Mesopotamia. Jerusalem's neighbor to the North, Sidon, for instance was a well-known place for glassmaking, whereas Jerusalem is not. It would be strange if glassblowing was discovered in a place where there was no native skill or tradition in the making of glass vessels, and a place where even glass vessel usage was rare. What archaeologists are probably looking at in the finding of glassblowing tubes in first century BC Israel is a Hellenistic or Roman import, just like all the other glass in Israel up to that time. Jerusalem at the time was a cosmopolitan city with many foreigners, especially Greeks and Romans. It's possible that a Greek or Sidonian artisan with the new glassblowing skill decided to move to Jerusalem and set up shop for some reason, probably to cater to upper-class Romans who could afford and appreciate his wares.

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