MURANO GLASS BEADS

 The history of glass bead making may go back a thousand years or more, but it became a major industry starting from the twelfth century, in Murano, following suggestions from Marco Polo, who had taken some specimens from the East. In this small Venetian island, there was developed the production of "conterie" (a word that comes from computus, counting), that is glass beads used for decoration and adornment. Glass beads may be full or hollow. According to working technique, they can be divided in three basic categories: "conteria", "rosetta" or rosette, and "perle a lume". "Conteria" and "rosetta" are cane beads, that is made from sticks of glass previously prepared.

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JEWERLY

 The "glass jewels" presented in the collection "Ori di Venezia" represent the natural progression of the company's enormous production of beads. The variety of shapes, colours, lights and shades that glass can create rework the geometry of the female face and figure. Introspection and sensuality seem to come from far away and yield back the most profound and faithful connotations of Venice. Femininity has its representation in a series of necklaces that recover the best of Murano traditions, rethinking its colours and forms with a contemporary sensitivity. The union of modern style and ancient tradition gives birth to beads of extraordinary form ...

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