The glassblower’s tools have hardly changed since Antiquity: cane, pontil, metal chisels, wooden pallets and mallets, cast iron or steel moulds, and fireclay crucibles. At Lalique, the hot workshop has a furnace with twelve pots and an electric basin furnace that allows a continuous casting of several tons of crystal per day. When in contact with a heated material, the molten crystal has the property of attaching itself to it. After heating the end of his steel rod, the glassmaker plunges it into the pot (photo) and “picks” a certain amount of glowing crystal which is called the parison.