How is glass made ?

Glass can be made in a variety of ways, the one that I will be talking about is called rolling. Rolling consists of three main ingredients which are soda, lime and sand. Other ingredients can include gold to make specific colors. The three materials are put into a large furnace and then melted/heated together. After they are put through the furnace where they are melted together, they get rolled out in a machine that makes the glass into sheet panels. While they are still warm they will get slid into another machine where they will be cooled in the sheet form . Finally they get pulled out of the machine that cools them and then they get cut into smaller sheets. All there is left to do after that is to clean the sheets of glass and ship the glass to retailers and the hobbyist for there own creative use around the world. Glass comes in various colors and textures from many different manufactures in the United States. The glass will either come in opalescent, cathedral or an mixture of both. The variety of glass selections available are almost unlimited.