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Handle

Handle, glass vessels

Modern glass blowers usually apply the handle to the rim and pull it down to the shoulder.   Because ancient glass blowers did not have sheers to cut the glass, they attached the handle first to the shoulder, pulled it up and attached it to the rim and then the excess glass was folded over back and forth, sometimes looped and pinched to for a decorative projection or thumb rest, sometimes drawn out thin and snapped off, or a combination of these techniques was used.   See bifurcated handle, dlophin handle, reeded handle, ribbed handle, and trifurcated handle.   

Handle

Handle, glass vessels

Modern glass blowers usually apply the handle to the rim and pull it down to the shoulder.   Because ancient glass blowers did not have sheers to cut the glass, they attached the handle first to the shoulder, pulled it up and attached it to the rim and then the excess glass was folded over back and forth, sometimes it was looped and pinched to for a decorative projection or thumb rest, sometimes it was drawn out thin and snapped off, and sometimes a combination of these techniques was used.   See bifurcated handle, dlophin handle, reeded handle, ribbed handle, and trifurcated handle.