How's it going, you guys?

My name is Jake Speich the Studio Manager at Lake Superior Art Glass.

And we're doing a "design your own candle" event.

Right now, I'm going to be creating a votive that has a feathered pattern.

It's one of the oldest patterns that have been discovered dating back to Egyptian pottery.

We'll roll and cool that as well and get a small bubble started.

[sharp blowing] The first color you go in to you always pick up a little bit more than the second and that yellow's not going to look yellow until it fully cools down.

[snip] Okay.

So the first step to doing this feathered pattern is to generate a spiral.

And we got it nice and toasty.

I'm gonna hustle, so I use the heat while I got it.

So I'll go back to that paper to press it back into the shape I'm after.

And I'll bring the bubble back [sharp blowing] and I'll really go back to that jackline constriction.

Glass does not like to be in sharp angles because it's a fluid at this temperature.

That's why we have the mold there.

It gives us that nice straight-walled contour of the flat base.

Okay, I'll squeeze where I want it to release.

Give it a little vibration.

So it's pretty much there.

I think I'll just get it that final heat and open it up, see how close we can get it.

And as I said, that yellow will really pop as this piece cools down.

Final step is we'll add a tiny droplet of water and a little tap separates just like that.

Thanks for tuning in.

[music] The Slice, from PBS North.