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Quote from OA "This year, Salem Community College graduated 31 glassblowers — for years, the school graduated about 20 each year — and it expects 66 incoming s
by keithpeter 10y ago
Quote from OA
"This year, Salem Community College graduated 31 glassblowers — for years, the school graduated about 20 each year — and it expects 66 incoming students next school year. Social media videos have sparked new interest in the craft, Briening said."
Perhaps a couple of apprenticeships while the experienced ones are still around? Wouldn't cost that much.
I'm liking this increase in interest in craft production and manual skills - the kind that are harder to taylorise.
- tinco 10y agoExactly, they make it seem like it somehow is society that changed to not have glassblowers anymore but the reality is that it was their simple business decision. Hiring a rookie glassblower or two at maybe 50.000 a year for 5 years would have cost them perhaps half a million. And now instead of that they're going to have to 'steal' one from another university for god knows how much money and God knows for how long.