The day before we visited Yorktown, Jamestowne, and Williamsburg we stopped by the glass house with Amy's family, the first area of Jamestown that you come to. You can walk by the ruins of the historic glasshouse first. I didn't take pictures of that since I had when we'd visited it last year. We headed to the new glasshouse first thing. Once there we looked in the giftshop and at the people blowing glass. They are fascinating to watch. One of the guys (the long-haired one) is an apprentice who is a student at a nearby college.
The picture on the right shows a guy working on a square shaped bottle. I guess I'd seen them, but didn't ever think about how they were made. In the video below you can see that he put the glob of molten glass into what appears to be a wet rectangular mold and blew it into the proper shape.
It was really fun to watch. Their methods are fairly traditional, except that they use natural gas flames to heat up the glass instead of fires as the original colonists would have done.
~Matt
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