Debbie Tarsitano discusses formulating a new softer glass for paperweights with Chris Buzzini and her father, Delmo. Oral history interview with Debbie Tarsitano by Barb Elam, conducted via telephone, April 18, 2019, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 01:07.

Debbie Tarsitano: Everybody made their weights from the glass my father and I created. Then later years, it must have been in the eighties cause my father was dead by ’91, an artist named Chris Buzzini and my father and I said we have to soften this glass, cause everybody was doing such dimensional work and this glass is hard to work with. And so we made a second formula with Schott, and Chris was very instrumental in this. We called it S8, and S8 was close to the glass we couldn’t get. And then we opened up S8 to everyone. And everybody was able to make their dimensional work then. And everybody began to make the work they wanted to make, and the way they wanted; it was a great glass to work with. And then even the people that had the lock on the glass had to buy S8, because they couldn’t order enough for the company to make it. We were like 10 to 15 artists that can order it together and make 10,000 pounds. So the people that wanted the little melts of their own, they couldn’t make that anymore. And so we wound up having that made for everybody.