GlassOfVenice Sale on artistic Murano Glass and Venetian Glass Valentione’s day gufts, jewelry, cufflinks, tableware, vases, sculptures, [...]
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Enjoy Venetian skating rink, Murano Glass exhibition, New Year’s at Piazza San Marco, and add some spirituality and good Italian food this Holiday [...] GlassOfVenice Sale on new artistic Murano Glass and Venetian Glass vases, sculptures, [...] We have just received new Murano Glass candle holders, goblets, carafes, tableware, art glass and jewelry which make perfect Christmas and holiday gifts. We also have exciting things in store such as upcoming Holiday Gift Giveaway for our registered customers and other surprise events that will be announced [...] Just in time for the Holidays we offer new artistic Murano Glass and Venetian Glass vases, sculptures, goblets, candle holders, tableware and [...] Just in time for the Holidays and all the gift-giving surrounding them, we are introducing lots of new gorgeous Murano glass products to expand our famously huge assortment of the best authentic Murano glass on the web even [...] Murano glass is about to get even more famous and fashionable as it gets a boost from the legendary Versace brand. In an attempt to add a twist to their Versace Casa collection of home furnishings and decor and revive Gianni Versace’s heritage, the famous design house teamed up with the best-in-class Murano glassmaking firm [...] We often get questions about the possibility of visiting a factory or a workshop in Murano and witnessing the creation of famous Murano Glass. Unfortunately the artisans we work with and many other high quality Murano glass artists do not open the doors of their workshops to tourists. Yet you can find a way to visit a tourist-friendly mass-market Murano glass [...] Murano glass is glass in a chemical sense of the word. However, Murano glass is as different from, say, the glass in your window panes, as Rembrandt paintings are different from an empty canvas. Murano glass is created only on the island of Murano, located within the borders of the city of Venice in Northern Italy. This glass is created using various metals for rich coloring, gold and silver foil for sparkles, and then hand-worked or mouth-blown to achieve beautiful [...] Murano glass is hand-crafted by masters working the heated-up liquefied glass mass using special centuries-old techniques, and then cooling it down till it solidifies to form a specific pattern within a certain shape. For this reason, when an article made of Murano glass breaks, it is not possible to fix it except for gluing it together. Gluing may work if the item has a smooth break line and broke into only two or three pieces as opposed to many small ones. [...] |
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