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The
glass eŽ a material not difficult to find, famous for its main
physical characteristics: transparency, hardness and fragility.
These characteristics render it delicate a material and
extremely refined, with which splendid effects of light can be
created. The glass to the fused state puoŽ to be worked for
conferirgli the form wished with various techniques, between
which the blowing
The
blown glass is realized through an ancient technique that had
origin in the first century a.C in Middle East and successively
in every Country but expecially in Murano , today
recognized all over the world like the native land of glass art.:
the glass comes preliminarily fused into a "
crogiolo" , it comes then captured from the Master with a
long tube of iron , the " canna". To this point the
Master blows into of the tube in order to put molding on the
drop of glass previously captured, to assume the form
wished before that he makes solid itself. The simple
principle described here is transformed in art in the hands of
the Master that it succeeds to extrapolate from an opera
shapeless material of rare beauty

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