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Venetian Republic, fearing fire and destruction to the
city’s mostly wood buildings, ordered
glassmakers to move their
foundries to Murano in
1291. Murano's glassmakers were soon the island’s most prominent
citizens.and found their daughters
married into Venice’s most affluent families. Of course there
was a catch: Glassmakers weren't allowed to leave the Republic.
However, many craftsmen took this risk and set up glass furnaces
in surrounding cities and as far afield as England and the
Netherlands.
The manufacturer's presence has extended to
art crystal, glass figurines, glass gifts, paperweights,
Decorated glass, vases, dishes, bowls, artistic glass,
candlesticks, candle holders, oil lamps, decorative glass, cake
plates, tumblers, glass shades, pitchers,carafes, decanters, ice
buckets, bowls, gift ideas, jewelry boxes, perfume
bottles,decanters, business card holders, ring holders,
cuspidors, baskets, toothpick holders, oil candles, glass
pumpkins, garden floats, glass floats, ashtrays, baskets, powder
jar, temple jar, water cooler, washing pots and hand blown
glass.
Murano’s glassmakers held a monopoly on quality glassmaking
for centuries, developing or refining many technologies
including crystalline
glass,
enameled glass (smalto), glass with threads of gold
(aventurine), multicolored glass (millefiori),
milk glass (lattimo), and imitation gemstones made of glass.
Today, the artisans of Murano are still employing these
century-old techniques, crafting everything from contemporary
art glass and glass jewelry to murano glass chandeliers and wine
stoppers. Murano
glass is still interwoven with
Venetian glass.
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