Non-Woven Textile Cores and Molds for Making Complex Sculptural Glass Bottle Interiors and Exteriors

A method of using a high-temperature, destructible, non-woven textile core to make a glass vessel, wherein the core comprise a hollow body and a tube projecting from the hollow body, the lumen of which is in connection with the hollow body, the method comprising the steps of

• suspending the core within a mold, such that a continuous space is present between the outer surface of the core and the inner surface of the mold and such that at least some portion of the tube projecting from the hollow body of the core protrudes from the mold;
• introducing heated glass into the space between the core and the mold, such that glass surrounds the portion of the core present within the mold and forms a vessel having a hollow interior portion;
• annealing the formed glass;
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• removing the core from the interior hollow portion of the glass vessel, the shape of the inner hollow portion being defined by the shape portion of the core that was present within the mold.

A method of using a high temperature, destructible, non-woven textile mold to create a glass vessel, comprising the steps of

• introducing a hot glass into the hollow portion of the mold;
• blowing, pressing, or otherwise forcing the introduced glass to conform to the inner surface of the mold, forming a vessel;
• annealing the formed glass;
• removing the mold from around the glass vessel after it has cooled.