25th July 2011, 09:24 PM
I can't imagine a glass furnace being enclosed in a small space like that, the constant need for a steady heat to keep the glass molten would make a small space like that almost unbearable. There's almost no evidence at all for beadmaking furnaces being of any size, in general glassworking and beadmaking don't take place on the same sites because the requirements for heat sources are not similar. I presume you're talking about a furnace to work glass rather than one to actually create glass from raw materials.
The people to talk to about glass would be the Roman glass guys, they've done more work on the subject than anyone else I know. Their furnace-building project is well-documented here, including an image of a glassblower from a Roman lamp.
http://www.romanglassmakers.co.uk/furnace1.htm
The people to talk to about glass would be the Roman glass guys, they've done more work on the subject than anyone else I know. Their furnace-building project is well-documented here, including an image of a glassblower from a Roman lamp.
http://www.romanglassmakers.co.uk/furnace1.htm
Prime practitioner of headology, with a side order of melting glass with a stern glare.