The name "Millefiori" (thin glass polychrome canes) comes from the various geometrical and floral patterns present in the center of the same. The "Millefiore", which are often identified with the "Murrina" itself, are small objects enchantingly manufactured that still represent a mystery for many people due to their fine decorations. For this reason "Gli Ori di Venezia" thought of the idea of offering, to those who desire to approach these small jewels for the first time, a brief story and some fundamental moments of the long and complex manufacturing of the "Murrine". The use of the glass rods goes back to the Phoenician and Alexandrian Age. It can be found in the vases and bowls from the Antique Roman Period. In the XVI Century this technique came back to rise to become art-work thanks to the Murano glass Masters in the beginning of the XIX Century.
The glass rod, in its original circular form, is covered with layers of different colored glass and heated in front of the oven. At each passage special grooved molds confer to the still soft cylinder the most various shapes in its entire length. The rod is then re-heated and pulled to become very thin but yet maintaining the perfect tiny section and the original design. Opportunely cooled off on the ground, each rod is cut into small bars. With a detailed and patient work, the segments of `Millefiori' are placed together in small different size molds complying to the prearranged design and composition of colors. These singular pieces, placed in re-heating molds, are slilghtly melted together to create a mosaic. Our "Murrina" comes from these `blocks' of unrefined glass. In the cold shop the "Murrina" is cut in different sizes or designs and grounded to create a unique and unrepeatable miniature. Each item is completed with its gold frame transforming it into a small jewel.
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.read more...
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 ...read more...
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