T's cousin Tiffany came by for a visit and one of the many places we went to was the Museum of Glass, about 45 minutes north of the city. It was awesome (I had taken my parents last Oct) but we went on a Sunday where they have more demos and a special Sunday-onle Flameworking workshop! After a lengthy ride on line 3, we cabbed to the museum- in an industrial area, or factories, wide dusty streets, and huge trucks carrying rocks. They made us check our bags and we went to see the glass blowing demo! They made a swan and a vase (blow molded- 2 part mold) There was at least 100 people in there. The nice thing was a videographer and live feed going to a huge monitor above center stage, for you to see details and closeups of him shaping the feathers on the wings, etc.
Modern art- shelves of vases with chinese characters etched on them.
It was really cool! Tiffany signed up for the Flameworking class, 150rmb for about 40 minutes of one-on-one teaching, in one of the exhibits- so all could come a watch. She had never done it before! It was really cool to watch- though all the instructions were in Chinese. He said she could make whatever she wanted, and gave a paper to draw something out. She settled on a pendant with matching earrings. The teacher made one earrings as a demo- then she made the other. He was hovering over her every move- "The petal is too big! stop! let me do it. Watch- see, we need to have even petals on the flower..."
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