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She snapped the piece from the blowpipe after setting the tip of the punty against the glass and resumed rotating the pipe against the bench arms after reheating the vessel in the furnace. She picked up the jacks and inserted them into the opening created with the separation, widening the mouth just slightly so that a slip of a rose could be inserted in to it. There was not much to be done there, but she did wish to shape the side of the vase.
Using the paddles and the jacks, she flattened out the vase's sides so that they were box-like in shape, not rounded. It was a small piece, simple. It did not take long for the shape to blossom beneath the manipulation of the tools in her fingers and she separated the piece from the punty once it had been completed, placing the vase into the garage where it would wait as she fashioned the rose to be placed within it.
Discarding the punty, Iseult picked up the blowpipe and returned to the furnace, gathering glass and rolling it out along the marver. Not that it was completely necessary for this. She decided to work on the stem first and rolled the gathered glass in the green pigment coloring. She sat down at her bench with a handful of tools set up around her, but she focused on the tweezers, picking them from the metal lot and squeezing at the globule at the tip of the blowpipe.
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