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Murrina
and
millefiori
The
murrina
technique involves slicing canes of glass to expose transverse patterns, and
it can be used to create repeating decorative elements. Glassmakers have made
murrina
since ancient times but Venetian glassmakers developed a renewed interest in it during the
Renaissance.
Literally “thousand flowers,”
millefiori
is a type of
murrina
. In
millefiori
, the glass-
maker slices rods of layered glass to expose a flowerlike design on a clear or light blue disk
of glass.
Millefiori
is popular for pendants and earrings, since an individual flower can be
isolated for a simple and beautiful effect.
Enameled glass
By the fiteenth century glassmakers finished deeply hued glass pieces, only to embellish
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