Milk Glass
Posted in Home Treasures on 10/06/2009 09:17 pm by staff
The glass vases Murano are known throughout the world. Murano is a small island in Venice Lagoon and the city linked by picturesque bridges and canals.
But what are the components of the crown? Glass is a product created from mixtures of silicon (quartz, sand, sodium, iron, calcium, and more). To create the colored glass, the artisan add some copper metal oxides different colors.Cobalt blue for red, and so on.
Murano glass was born in 1295 when the Venetian Republic ordered glassmakers to move their foundries to Murano in Venice, because too much wood building was burned during glass.
The Murano glass industry soon to become very important internationally, particularly for glass blowing and vases. In particular, typical products are crystalline glass, enameled glass, glass with threads of gold, glass of milk, technical glass of various colors, followed in many countries around the world, but the original Murano glass is unique.
Glass & = "_blank"> target production Murano vases has not changed over the centuries. Today there are new techniques for the special glass Murano: the outcome depends most of all knowledge and handmade glass art skills.
To see how to make handmade vases, cups and glasses, cups, Cornucopia, chandeliers, Murano glass jewelry, you can take the time to visit the factory in Murano glass, were time stopped in the 14th century.
One of the main attractions that can be seen while visiting the glass factory in Murano glass horse is typical.
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