Venice is a unique and evocative city which often left you bewitched.
Thankfully many poets, authors, and artists fell for the city and
with their words help us expressing our fascination...
Earrings *MURANO TREASURE ~ ROSE*
Original handmade MURANO GLASS beads from Venice, Italy, combined with a small chain, made by me with love.
17,00 €
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“At the bridge I stood lately in the brown night.
From afar came a song: as a golden drop it welled over the quivering surface.
Gondolas, lights, and music — drunken it swam out into the twilight.
My soul, a stringed instrument, sang to itself, invisibly touched,
a secret gondola song, quivering with iridescent happiness.
— Did anyone listen to it?”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Earrings *MURANO TREASURE ~ RED*
Original handmade MURANO GLASS beads from Venice, Italy, combined with a small chain, made by me with love.
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“It is the city of mirrors,
the city of mirages,
at once solid and liquid,
at once air and stone.”
Erica Jon
Earrings *MURANO TREASURE ~ BLUE*
Original handmade MURANO GLASS beads from Venice, Italy, combined with a small chain, made by me with love.
19,00 €
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“Venice…
A splendour of miscellaneous spirits.”
John Ruskin
Earrings *MURANO TREASURE ~ LIGHT BLUE*
Original handmade MURANO GLASS beads from Venice, Italy, combined with a small chain, made by me with love.
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“Venice,
it’s temples and palaces
did seem like fabrics of enchantment piled to heaven.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Earrings *MURANO TREASURE ~ GREEN*
Original handmade MURANO GLASS beads from Venice, Italy, combined with a small chain, made by me with love.
17,00 €
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“I loved her from my boyhood, ~she to me
Was as a fairy city of the heart,
Rising like water-columns from the sea,
Of joy the sojourn and of wealth the mart;
And Otway, Radcliffe, Schiller, Shakespeare’s art,
Had stamped her image in me, and even so,
Although I found her thus, we did not part,
Perchance even dearer in her day of woe
Than when she was a boast, a marvel, and a show”
Lord Byron, Venice
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MURANO GLASS
During my journey to Venice to the Biennial Arts Festivas I found for you some MURANO GLASS pendants and pearls and I'm creating for you a really special jewelry.
MURANO GLASS is a famous product of the Venetian island of Murano. Located off the shore of Venice, Italy, Murano has been a commercial port as far back as the 7th century. By the 10th century, the city had become well known for its glassmakers, who created unique Murano glass.
It is believed that glassmaking in Murano originated in 8th century Rome, with significant Asian and Muslim influences, as Venice was a major trading port. Murano’s reputation as a center for glassmaking was born when the Venetian Republic, fearing fire and destruction of the city’s mostly wooden buildings, ordered glassmakers to move their foundries to Murano in 1291. Murano glass is still interwoven with Venetian glass.
Murano’s glassmakers held a monopoly on quality glassmaking for centuries, developing or refining many technologies including crystalline glass, enamelled glass (smalto), glass with threads of gold (aventurine), multicoloured glass (millefiori), milk glass (lattimo), and imitation gemstones made of glass. Today, the artisans of Murano are still employing these centuries-old techniques, crafting everything from contemporary art glass and glass figurines to Murano glass chandeliers and wine stoppers.
Today, Murano is home to a vast number of factories and a few individual artists’ studios making all manner of glass objects from mass marketed stemware to original sculpture.
The process of making Murano glass is rather complex. Most Murano glass art is made using the lampworking technique. The glass is made from silica, which becomes liquid at high temperatures. As the glass passes from a liquid to a solid state, there is an interval wherein the glass is soft before it hardens completely, allowing the artisan to shape the material. Colors, techniques and materials vary depending upon the look a glassmaker is trying to achieve. Aquamarine is created through the use of copper and cobalt compounds, whereas ruby red uses a gold solution as a coloring agent.
Murrine technique begins with the layering of colored liquid glass, which is then stretched into long rods called canes (see caneworking). When cold, these canes are then sliced in cross-section, which reveals the layered pattern. The better-known term “millefiori” is a style of murrine that is defined by each layer of molten color being molded into a star, then cooled and layered again. When sliced, this type of murrine has the appearance of many flowers, thus mille- (thousand) fiori (flowers).
Filigree (a type of caneworking), glass engraving, gold engraving, incalmo, lattimo, painted enamel, ribbed glass and submersion are just a few of the other techniques a glassmaker can employ.
