Hot Soup offers several glasswork classes which are open to the public. Classes range from introductory lessons, dealing with basic techniques and tools; to advanced lessons, focusing on refining your glassblowing ideas and technical skills. Please visit our gallery of students works, to see some of the class projects available at Hot Soup Studio.
A little bit of Glass blowing history
With the exception of natural-gas furnaces and electric annealing ovens, the glass artist's tools are the same now as they were 2,000 years ago. Artists today still use the paddle, shears, chipping tool, tweezers, shears, and jacks to list a few.