How to make a pumpkin
Learn in classes and through an apprenticeship how to make glass pumpkins.
First I need some color for my pumpkin. I use glass frit, crushed up colored glass, that sticks to the hot glass like sprinkles on ice cream.
Next I shape the glass and start to blow up the body of the pumpkin.
Meanwhile my assistant makes gathers hot glass to make a stem. We stick the two pieces of hot glass together...
...And madly wrap the hot glass around a pipe to give it it's distinctive curls.
I give the pumpkin a little more heat just to make sure everything is where I want it.
And, voila! a finished pumpkin. It is still too hot to touch, about 1300 degrees so...
We put it away in a kiln so it can slowly cool off. Tomorrow we can open the kiln and see what we have!
PUMPKINS!!!