Module 1: Glass in the
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Professor Linn W. Hobbs
MONDAY, 16 June
Lecture 8:30 am - noon
-- Welcome and Logistics (Heather Lechtman)
-- Structure & Topology of the Glassy State (LH)
-- Video: Ancient Egypt
-- A Brief History of the Egyptian Bronze Age (DG)
-- Earliest Glassmaking: Faience & Egyptian Blue (DG)
-- Materials Science of Faience, Egyptian Blue & Other Glass Ceramics
(LH)
Laboratory 1:30 - 5:30 pm
-- Forming lost-wax gypsum plaster molds for faience
-- Preparation and casting of faience paste
-- Preparation of core-vessel mix and casting of cores
TUESDAY, 17 June
Lecture 8:30 am - noon
-- Egyptian & Mesopotamian (Bronze Age) Core Forming; Iron-Age Revival:
Core Forming in 8th-7th C. BCE E. Mediterranean; Mediterranean Classical
(Groups I-III) Core Forming (DG)
-- Video: CoreVessel Video by Dudley F. Giberson,Jr.
-- The Glass Transition: Gift to the Vitrarii Rheology of Glass (LH)
-- Thermomechanical Properties of Glass Core Materials: Clays, Firing,
Porosity & Microstructure (LH)
Laboratory 1:30 - 5:30 pm
-- Weathering and conservation of glass; light microscopical examination
of ancient glass fragments (Elizabeth Hendrix)
-- Firing faience objects
-- Mounting fired cores on mandrils; slipping cores; frit grinding; application
of frit to wetted cores; core glass melting and decoration
-- Slump-mold manufacture
WEDNESDAY, 18 June
Lecture 8:30 am - noon
-- Raw glass production: origins, ingredients & compositions (LH)
-- Video: Lost Civilizations: Greece
-- Glass in the classical age (DG)
-- Molding glass: casting & slumping (DG)
Laboratory 1:30 - 5:30 pm
-- Mounting fired cores on mandrils; slipping cores; frit grinding; application
of frit to wetted cores; core glass melting and decoration
-- Weathering and conservation of glass; light microscopical examination
of ancient glass fragments (Elizabeth Hendrix)
-- Firing faience objects
-- Slumping bowls
THURSDAY, 19 June
Lecture 8:30 am - noon
-- A short history of Rome and the Early Empire (DG)
-- Video: Lost Civilizations: Rome
-- The Roman glass industry (DG)
-- Working of glass (LH)
-- Video: The Glass Makers of Herat
Laboratory 1:30 - 5:30 pm
-- Glass gathering; using the blow pipe; blown-glass working techniques:
marvering, shaping, pontil (punty)
-- Core vessel glass melting & decoration
FRIDAY, 20 June
Lecture 8:30 am - noon
-- Transition from Ancient to Renaissance Glassmaking (DG)
-- Video: Glass Blowing in the Venetian State
-- European Glassmaking Traditions (LH)
-- Glass in Renaissance Society (DG)
Laboratory 1:30 - 5:30 pm
-- Mold blowing
-- Core vessel glass melting & decoration