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In Murano has always been handed down a great executive skill manual is accompanied with a few simple tools and characteristic iron. The origins of glass art in the lagoon of Venice has ancient roots. Archaeological excavations have unearthed fragments which show the presence of such activity already in the seventh century BC . E 'but in the twelfth century that this art appeared as organized manufacturing. The activity is concentrated on the island of Murano, especially since the Republic, to prevent fire risk, sanctioned the transfer from the old town of the island all the furnaces in use. The production was initially mostly extras aimed everyday use. For example, they were commonly produced bottles of wine and oil, glasses, lamps and objects for decoration or religious. The technique was later refined thanks to the trade relationships that Venice had with the East, especially with the peoples of the ancient tradition of glass as the Phoenicians, Syrians and Egyptians. These exchanges were the source of a tradition composed of technical knowledge in the western and eastern part attribuisconoalla lagoon production those features that have made it unique and inimitable, synonymous in the world of Made in Italy .Even today that throughout the world aziendeche produce glass high artisitco are taking towards mechanization, in Murano things are not changing. The permanency of traditional manufacturing is definitely tied to the land, the air you breathe in the island, to the continuous exchange of experience that the teachers are doing in the pub and also to the "theft of ideas" that, always. It is performed more or less in the light of the sun. This creates a unique blend that makes a piece made in Murano contains something more than another made equally, but off-island.

Murano glass

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