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Answer

Hello Jeremy Hayes,

The workers would blow the glass into molds to achieve the shape and calipers to determine the length or height of a particular design/piece.

Corning produced the following video( turn on your sound before viewing ) which explains a bit of the technique:

Regards,

David P. Donaldson, MFA