Glassmaker's pipe
Glassmaker's pipes are about 1.2 to 1.6 meter long tubes with a mouthpiece at one end. The glassmaker picks up a small amount of molten glass with the other end of the pipe and first tosses it back and forth. This so-called marbling gives the product a rough external shape. At the same time, the glass mass cools down. Then he blows the pipe. As a result, the glass gob expands into a bubble, also called a parison. The product is processed through repeated heating in the oven , blowing and marbling until it has its final shape. Nowadays compressed air operated pipes are also used. This way of processing the glass is called hollow blowing.
Glassmaker's pipe in heraldry
The glassmaker's pipe is a common figure in heraldry and can only be found in a few coats of arms . It is one of the typical glassmaker symbols.
The natural pipe is shown with a slight stylization, which is not particularly heraldic penetrated. Often there are two pipes in the coat of arms, which are placed as a St. Andrew's cross. The tinging can show any heraldic color, but priority is given to gold and silver. Communities with a great glass blowing tradition have chosen this heraldic figure .
See also
Web links
- Glassmaker's pipe (Heraldry) in the Heraldry Wiki