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Glass Marbles – The Magic of Making

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How do you get different colors to twist and twirl inside a glass marble?

In this video from The Magic of Making, a series of short films for kids created in partnership with BBC Worldwide, we get a peek at how a gob of molten glass and colored glass canes can be twisted, pulled, and rounded into a glistening sphere.

adding color to the glass
making a glass marble
Follow this with more glass videos, including:
A horse sculpted from molten glass in under 90 seconds
• The Glass Ribbon Machine
• Glas, Bert Haanstra‘s Oscar-winning documentary short film (1959)

And previously: How balloons are made.

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