How best to describe this Murano glass bead necklace in silver? Designer fine handmade jewelry, custom handcrafted jewelry,
colorful beaded necklace, one of a kind jewelry, contemporary jewelry design?
How about...stunning?
We discovered this abstract Murano glass donut pendant from Venice, Italy and quickly decided to design a necklace for it.
The chain is sterling silver, and we incorporated small Venetian glass beads with their own abstract pattern into the unique
custom handcrafted necklace. The design is contemporary and colorful; you’ll find yourself wearing your Murano glass bead
necklace all the time. The necklace is 32" long + 3" of danglies.
Go ahead, Indulge your inner Girlie Girl...you know You’re Worth It!
Since the 15th century, all over the world, the name of Murano has been virtually synonymous with the creation of the finest and most
elegant glass. The industry expanded considerably after the Sack of Constantinople 1203/04, an event that had a tremendous impact on
Venice, both technically and economically.
Sophisticated glass techniques such as enameling were brought in from the east at that time,
but the Sack of Constantinople also brought Venice absolute dominance of the trade in luxury goods around the whole Mediterranean.
From an early date the Republic organized its glass trade and industry in a conscious effort to achieve a worldwide monopoly. In1291,
the Venetian Republic ordered glassmakers to move their foundries to the island of Murano because the glassworks represented a fire
danger in Venice, whose buildings were mostly wooden at the time.
What made Murano's glassmakers so special? For one thing, they were the only people in Europe who knew how to make a mirror. They also
developed or refined technologies such as crystalline glass, enameled glass (smalto), glass with threads of gold (aventurine),
multicolored glass (millefiori), milk glass (lattimo), and imitation gemstones made of glass. Their virtual monopoly on quality glass
lasted for centuries, until glassmakers in Northern and Central Europe introduced new techniques and fashions around the same time
that colonists were immigrating to the New World.
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