There, he shows us the fundamentals of bending: hold a glass tube above a fire, wait for it to slacken from a solid to a more ...

Tom Wartman is standing over a rectangle of blue flame and bending glass in his hands. "This fire is about 1,500 degrees," he says casually. He quickly and deftly moves the glass arc from the flame to ...

Back in the mid-20th century, neon signs were on the skids. Public tastes had turned against the ubiquitous glowing letters and cocktail glasses that beckoned people to dime stores, diners, ...