Iseult started on the glass rose first. More precisely, she began on the vase that would hold the glass rose. She dipped her blowpipe into the furnace and gathered a significant amount of glass. Too much. She held the pipe upside down and let some drip off into a waiting bucket. She then rolled the blowpipe as she brought it into a horizontal position and reheated the globule at the end.
Orange and glowing, she brought the heated glass over to the marver and began to roll it out, smoothing the glass so that it fell evenly, angling her rolls slightly so that it began to give the glass a bit of shape. For this piece she wanted a slightly angular look, with the bottom a little more narrow, widening towards the middle, then narrowing again at the top.
She reheated the glass and carried it over to the colors she'd arranged on the table for herself. She'd chosen a simple blue powder that would ripen into a deep sea-blue after the vessel was cooled. She rolled the piece in the powder, ensuring that most of it was covered, then reheated the vessel again in the furnace, letting the powders evenly distribute and melt into the glass. Now as the glass would cool the blue would apparent beneath the otherwise bright orange glow of molten glass.
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