Printabowl: Bringing Water-Pipes into the 21st Century

The art of glass pipes dates as early as 3000 B.C. The first glass pipes originated in Egypt and Mesopotamia through a process that used molten sand to mold glass. These early glass pieces took such unprecedented skill to make that they were considered as valuable as jewels. Thousands of years later, around 30 B.C., the Romans developed the technique of blowing air into hot glass to shape it, the technique that remains standard to this day. Creating intricate glass water-pipes is a time-consuming art. The process can take days and need the hands of multiple artists to finalize a perfect piece. If one line is drawn crooked or worse, the piece is dropped, hours and hours of hard labor end up shattered on the floor.

This is where Chicago brothers, Al and Saul Jacobs, step in. During their time at University of Washington studying various forms of art, they...

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