Jim Harmon discusses glassblowers learning techniques from Lino Tagliapietra. Oral history interview with Jim Harmon by Barb Elam, conducted via telephone, February 8, 2018, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 00:55.

Jim Harmon: I mean at least all the glassblowers that were of any quality were—realized that he [Lino Taglipietra] was giving us information, detailed information, about techniques, Venetian techniques that—if you go there as an artist and visit for a week or a month, you’re never going to pick up all these little subtle details of how something is handled as much as when he came here, he really devoted his time and effort to showing everybody exactly, ‘This is how you put this on,’ and, ‘No, you don’t do that, you do this. This is what the temperature is like.’ When you’re visiting a factory, they really don’t let you get up close that much in Venice.