Glassblowing

When people think of glassblowing, they usually see images of people pulling big globs of molten glass from a glory hole and forming a big vase at the end of a long, heavy tube of metal. They don't often think of folks standing behind a propane-oxygen torch and holding one end of a piece of glass in their bare hand while the other end liquifies at a couple thousand degrees. This kind of glassblowing is called lampworking (torch=lamp). There's a great magazine for lampworkers called The Flow.