Venetian glass or Murano glass? What is the difference? Almost everybody has heard of Venice, the beautiful city with canals and gondolas, made of hundreds of islands in North Italy, but not everybody has heard of an island called Murano.
Those who have heard of it associate it with mouth blown glass, the famous “Murano glass”. However calling it “Venetian glass” is not wrong for several reasons. All of the first furnaces in the 10th century were on the main island of Venice and only towards the end of the 13th century were moved.
The main island Venice was experiencing fire outbreaks in the city, in order to maintain the glass factories and protect their secret methods for creating the glass, the Doges of Venice decreed that all the glass furnaces be moved to Murano.
And still now all the furnaces, the few that are left are on the island of Murano. Some have moved to the main land and are therefore not considered as “authentic” anymore by those who have remained despite the difficult times.
Maybe we should ask ourselves what we can do in order to preserve Venetian glass, in other words authentic Murano glass, as they can be considered synonyms, from disappearing from earth’s face.
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