Rolled Table-Cathedral Glass * Tischkathedralglas - Produktion ~ Glashuette Lambers

The video above is wordless, but the description is in German, so narration wouldn't help most of us English-speakers. (My three years of high-school- and one year of college-German were more than two decades ago.)

Die Original Lamberts-Tischkathedralgläser werden in der gleichen hochwertigen Qualität, wie alle Gläser unserer Glashütte, hergestellt. Originalität, Brillanz und Struktur der Tischkathedralgläser sind eben nur mit der Beherrschung dieses handwerklichen traditionellen Verfahrens zu erreichen. Nach der Entnahme der flüssigen Glasmasse aus dem Schmelzhafen wird diese auf spezielle Stahltische aufgegossen und mit einer Walze ausgewalzt. Dabei sind weder Tisch noch Walze strukturgebend. Die typische Oberfläche des Original Lamberts-Tischkathedralglases entsteht einzig und allein aus dem Temperaturgefälle zwischen Glasmasse und Stahltisch und der Konsistenz des Glases selbst.

Luckily, they also provide a translation...

Original Lamberts-Table-Cathedral-Glasses have the same fine quality as all our other products. As a matter of fact originality, brilliance and texture of these glasses can only be achieved by expert craftsmanship deeply rooted in tradition. The molten glass is ladled from the pot, poured onto a special steel table and rolled flat under a cylinder. The structure of the sheet cannot be entirely attributed to the table or the cylinder. The typical surface of Original Lamberts-Table-Cathedral-Glass results from a difference in temperature between the molten glass and the steel table as well as the consistency of the glass itself.

But there is so much fascinating stuff going on here...

• the three-man teamwork to get the heavy ladle full of molten glass
• the fact that the three ladlers use facial and eye protection masks that they hold with their mouths 
• the running of the guy with the ladle on wheels
• the creation of the texture to the glass on a seemingly flat table
• the two glass cutters who clearly have been doing this for decades because they're a well-timed machine
• the fact that the cutters are not wearing any eye protection
• the mustache...seriously, such a glorious push broom

I could watch glass videos all day long...