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A thousand flowers all trapped in the glass

Thousands of flowers, say the English-speaking people. Articulate Cherry Blossom Festival in Japan, or a field of wild flowers on the hills of Tuscany mind. This is the name of one of the best methods for the manufacture of glass ever invented.

'Fiori' or flowers are made of tiny spheres of polished glass. The beads are cut from long glass rods, forged from a number of strips of glass of different colors are combined. The rods are cut into thin slices, or beads. Diameter bars shows the interplay of colored glass, each different and unique. Beads were and are still used to make different objects, from paintings to pendants, where each bead used as you would normally use color keys zoom to work. Effects of "flowers" to be fascinating, limited only by imagination makers.

According to Carl Gable, who wrote a comprehensive book on Venetian glass millefiori glass technique was invented over four thousand years in the Middle East, but most of the data points, this invention in the hands of the Phoenicians and Egyptians. There are a number of archaeological finds of fragments of objects decorated with millefiori, indicating very complicated designs, in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs. The Romans continued to play with millefiori glass and dissemination of technologies around the world, from Europe to China. But as happened with so many of these inventions were the secrets of millefiori lost in time and leave it until the patient imaginative and Murano glass manufacturers rediscovered in the early 16th century. He and his fellow filmmakers millefiori glass was about what it is today: the best show of glass, which comes from the workshops of Murano.

There are many different ways of Murano glassmakers to play with colors, shapes, materials and designs to make millefiori art. Millefiori beads can be fused to gold or silver leaf, mixed with semi-precious stones, rings, extended, or form, as in ancient times, used colored dots on a scene from nature, history and fantasy form. In the past, millefiori decorated tombs of the pharaohs' Egypt and the Roman wine goblets. They are still made in Murano in the same way, there were a few years ago, all wisely colored Murano glass furnace with a glass showcase in the world.