it takes four glassblowers from our team of 70 to create
just one unique, handmade glassybaby.

Glassblowers gather a ball of clear, molten glass on the blowpipe and blow it into a bubble. Next, a piece of colored glass is dropped onto the bubble and rolled over it. Finally, a layer of clear glass is gathered over the color, creating the unique, three-layered starting point of a glassybaby.

After reheating, the three-layer glass ball is blown out at the glassblower's bench. Then the hot glass is dropped into a mold and blown out again to give it some height. Returning to the bench, blowers transfer the glassybaby from the blow pipe onto a punty pole and it is reheated. The glass is then spun on the punty pole and cut down to the familiar glassybaby shape.

In the final steps, the glassybaby is "bonked" or knocked off the punty pole and reheated. Glassblowers then stamp the bottom of each glassybaby, which marks it as genuine.