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Vase (1872) manufactured by the Venice & Murano Glass & Mosaic Co. (Victoria and Albert Museum) Millefiori (Italian: [ˌmilleˈfjoːri]) is a glasswork technique which produces distinctive decorative patterns on glassware. The term millefiori is a combination of the Italian words "mille" (thousand) and "fiori" (flowers). [1]
The Doge visits Murano. A law dated November 8, 1291 confined most of Venice's glassmaking industry to the "island of Murano". [11] Murano is actually a cluster of islands linked by short bridges, located less than 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) north of the Venetian mainland in the Venetian lagoon.
A glass paperweight commemorating the closure of the Princess Margaret Rose Orthopaedic Hospital (2002) A paperweight is a small solid object heavy enough, when placed on top of papers, to keep them from blowing away in a breeze or from moving under the strokes of a painting brush (as with Chinese calligraphy). While any object, such as a stone ...
Millefiori beads from Murano. Murano beads are intricate glass beads influenced by Venetian glass artists. Since 1291, Murano glassmakers have refined technologies for producing beads and glasswork such as crystalline glass, enamelled glass (smalto), glass with threads of gold (), multicolored glass (millefiori), milk glass (lattimo) and imitation gemstones made of glass.
Caithness Glass is a Scottish artistic glassware manufacturing company. It was established in Wick, Caithness , Scotland in 1961 by Robin Sinclair, 2nd Viscount Thurso . It was rescued [ citation needed ] by George Mackie, Baron Mackie of Benshie in 1966.
Yelverton Paperweight Centre was a paperweight museum and supplier in Leg O'Mutton, a small hamlet near Yelverton, in the English county of Devon. The museum began as the private collection of a Cornish postmaster, and grew to contain over 1,200 items.