Venice and Murano Glass Blowing

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Venice is a beautiful city in Northern Italy with over fifteen hundred years of history and exceptionally rich artistic heritage. Thanks to Venice's successful conquests on land and sea, the city of Venice eventually became the center of the vast republic, with riches that few states could match in the Middle Ages. Thanks to Venice's amazing wealth and status as one of the mightiest states of its times, it attracted the best artists, architects and craftsmen, who all worked to make this fabulous city on the water even more beautiful.
One of Venice's earliest and most famous crafts, which dates back to the first millennium, is glass-making. Having discovered the glassware made by the ancient Romans, Venetian artisans started experimenting with glass mixtures and glass-making methods, until they established proven processes and workshops to make glass, which at the time nobody else could natch. Fearing the risk of fires in the densely populated city with mostly wooden structures, and the political risks from disclosing glass-making secrets, the Venetian Government decreed that all glass workshops had to be relocated to Murano island in 1291. Since then, Murano, a small island in the Venetian Lagoon acquired worldwide fame as the capital of art glass.
Today the tradition carries on. Modern Murano Glass artisans and artists work in the workshops much like their ancestors did, learning the secrets of the craft by working in the furnaces along their fathers and grandfathers from very young age. Crafting Murano Glass jewelry, sculptures, vases, tableware, glasses, and more is difficult work, which requires unique skills, stamina, an eye for detail, and artistic vision, and the number of Murano Glass artisans and workshops has been dropping over the years.
We at GlassOfVenice.com support this centuries-old craft and the artisans of Murano by working closely with many Murano-based art glass workshops and making their products available to the appreciative customers worldwide via our secure and sophisticated website.
In our articles, we explain Murano Glass and in our videos, we help you see how authentic Murano Glass is blown by the artisans in Venice. Enjoy this exclusive video from the U.S. - based importers of handcrafted Murano Glass and Murano Glass Jewelry, Accessories, and Home Decor from Venice. Italy.