RachelEscoeGlass is offering Private Party Glassblowing Events

Good morning Saturday buddies!

I have been receiving a ton of amazing interest on private party glassblowing events! So here is some info on what I will be offering at this moment in time and what future offers will be available once I can raise enough money to purchase a trailer and a truck for mobility purposes!

Private Party Workshop Inquiries : Great for wedding parties, team building work events, birthdays, bat/bar mitzvahs. You name it!

• Group Sizes - RachelEscoeGlass is able to take group sizes of up to 10 - 15 people max at this time.

• What You Make - Groups get the options to make an ornament or a paperweight. You pick your own colors and I help make it! (Wedding party options are different. Please feel free to contact Rachel if you are looking for specifically wedding party info.)

• Duration - Workshops range from 3 hours to 4 hours depending on the size of the group. Roughly 10 minutes for each person to make their work with me! (We can set-up a snack/hang out table while everyone is waiting to make their work and watching hot glass!)

Where -

- Evening workshops are held in Vancouver, WA at a community glass studio.  

- Morning workshops are held in Portland, OR at my home studio.

When -

- Evening workshops are SATURDAYS - WEDNESDAYS starting at 6pm. 

- Morning workshops are SATURDAYS starting at 10am.

For more information on my hands-on workshops for smaller groups please take a look at my workshops page. Link below!

Beginner Glass Workshop for 2

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So, in the meantime, I am able to host 10-15 people group events at my home studio and small workshops are held Saturday mornings. Weather permitting of course because they are held outside. We will be under a canopy. This will provide shade from sunlight and shelter from the rain/wind. Schedule changes will apply according to weather. If you are a night owl. I will be holding my workshops in the evenings at a community glassblowing studio in Vancouver, WA.

In the future, once I am completely mobile; meaning once I have a truck and trailer, I will be able to the take the glass workshops and private events to your space of choosing. I will be able to host large events and small workshops in peoples driveways, at public school events, courtyards, festivals, outside markets, breweries, wineries, wedding event spaces. You name it!

Please stay tuned in. I will be starting a crowd funding campaign in September where you will have a chance to help me become a fully mobile glassblowing studio!! There will rewards and fun things honored in your name if you help back my endeavor to become a mobile glass shop!

Thanks so much for reading and have a relaxing Saturday folks! Much love.

What is an Annealer & How Will it Function in the Upcoming Mobile Shop!

Annealer Kiln

with a Marver plate placed on top of kiln!

An Annealer is a Kiln. A hot oven that is used to store your glasswork after you’re finished making it in the glass shop. The type of glass I work with is sensitive and can be shocked easily. So in order to temper the glass and prevent it from breaking or exploding, we slowly cool it down over an 8 to 12 hour period of time. I mean imagine if you cooled something down from like 1000 degrees and in 10 minutes to room temperature. That’s too fast and sounds like a disaster! I don’t think any sort of material would like that! Unless you’re metal I guess! But glass is a delicate material and needs to be eased into its next phase.

When I am done working with a glass vessel, I knock it off the metal rod it is attached to and put it away into the kiln. It sits at around 900 degrees Fahrenheit or 515 degrees Celsius and slowly cools down to room temperature overnight. Now that’s more like it right!

Normal Marver Table

The annealer kiln I have ordered from Canned Heat Glass, (Pictured above and to the left) is going to be so fun because it will have two main functions. It will be a cute small kiln that sits on a metal stand with wheels and on top of the kiln it will have a marver. A Marver table is a stainless steel thick metal sheeted table. It normally functions as its own piece of equipment in a glass studio. Glassblowers use this to shape their glass, pick up color, etc. But in my studio it will be combined with the annealer kiln. The stainless steel metal sheet will be laid across the top of the annealer. Acting as an all in one multi functional piece of equipment! That way I will have less things to haul around and it will be much more versatile. Click the pictures to check out more of Canned Heat Glass equipment!

Once I have all of this equipment finished being made and in hand, I will show you with more detail what all of this will look like. I can’t wait!!!

In the meantime check out my new workshop listing just posted last week! It’s all about you! Take a solo private beginner workshop for 1 with me. I would love to teach you glassblowing!

Thanks so much for reading this months more technical blog. I hope you have a wonderful last weekend of May. Cheers!