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Almost in the center of Tromso, in the seaport is a small glassworks Blåst, where three girls - Vivvi Anne, Helen and Kari. By glassmakers can easily go and see what they do and how.
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In addition to the daily chore of blowing figurines of penguins and deer leisure glassblower Kari performs work to order. Drawings of such works hang on a special board and waiting for their turn.



Today Kari waits for simple work - you need to make a small vase of orange glass.
Dimensions vases, telephone and customer value of the specified (750 kroner - about 150 dollars).



Materials for work - glass rods of different colors, coloring powders.



The work began. On the metal tube in the furnace, where liquid glass over white flame burns, wound glass ball irregularly shaped. Orange powder for coloring glass is already cooked, it dips Kari glass preform future vases. Red pieces of glass lying on a steel plate, then turn to the dark spots inside surface of the vase.



All further process looks for the uninitiated mysteriously. Kari goes from the stove to the "bench", blowing into a tube oglazhivaet glowing ball folded in several layers of wet paper. Gradually emerges form appears in vases volume, the color goes from white to pink and red.



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Instruments of production recall the torture chamber.



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Well, the vase is almost ready. Kari beats her with tubing and sealed bottom of a gas burner. Now put the bowl in another furnace, where she "comes" and its color will acquire the desired hue.



Things glassblowers are not bad, although the girls complain that often have to sacrifice their own creative "I" and to make things just buy. And they want to do something for the soul, raise confidence artists. But here we have to choose just one thing. As, however, most of us.



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