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  2. Murano beads - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Venetian glass - Wikipedia

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    Millefiori beads. Glass beads (a.k.a. Murano beads) were made by the Venetians beginning in the 1200s. The beads were used as rosary beads and jewelry. They were also popular in Africa. Christopher Columbus noted that the people of the New World (Native Americans) were "delighted" with the beads as gifts, and beads became popular with American ...

  4. Millefiori - Wikipedia

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    Within several years of the technique's rediscovery, factories in Italy, France and England were manufacturing millefiori canes. [8] They were often incorporated into fine glass art paperweights. Until the 15th century, Murano glass makers were only producing drawn Rosetta beads made from molded Rosetta canes. Rosetta beads are made by the ...

  5. Chevron bead - Wikipedia

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    The term rosetta first appeared in the inventory of the Barovier Glass works in Murano, in 1496, in context with beads as well as with other glass objects. Venetian chevron beads are drawn beads, made from glass canes, which are shaped using specifically constructed star moulds. The first chevron beads were made towards the end of the 15th ...

  6. Glass bead making - Wikipedia

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    Lampworked dichroic glass bead showing thin film application Furnace glass beads. A variant of the wound glass bead making technique, and a labor-intensive one, is what is traditionally called lampworking. In the Venetian industry, where very large quantities of beads were produced in the 19th century for the African trade, the core of a ...

  7. History of glass - Wikipedia

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    A lump of glass was found at Eridu in Iraq that can be dated to the twenty-first century BC or even earlier; it was produced during the Akkadian Empire or the early Ur III period. [4] The glass is of blue colour, which was achieved with cobalt; such glass is generally known as Egyptian blue. Thus, such technique was attested in Eridu long ...

  8. Lino Tagliapietra - Wikipedia

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    Tagliapietra was born August 10, 1934, in an apartment on the Rio dei Vetri (which translates litteraly in "glass canal", or more broadly in "glass street" considering the intense use of waterways in the Venetian Lagoon as means for transport of goods and people) in Murano, Italy, [2] an island with a history of glass-making that dates from 1291.

  9. Beadwork - Wikipedia

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    By 1291, artists in Murano, Italy had begun production of intricate glass Murano beads inspired by Venetian glassware. With the advent of lampwork glass, Europeans started producing seed beads for embroidery, crochet, and other, mostly off-loom techniques. [7] Czech seed beads are among the most popular contemporary bead styles.

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