Murano Glass Gift Ideas for the Autumn and Winter

Murano glass gift ideas are something unique that stands out for their elegance, style and quality. Buyinga gift in Murano glass allows to find the right gift, original and impressive through which you will make people happy and surprise them. We are often forced to buy common objects that do not generate the enthusiasm we want in the individual who receives our gift.

With the gift ideas in Murano glass such as the table lamps, it is possible to choose and customize even a simplest object. If you yearn for presenting a unique gift item, opt for a piece of art like the wonderful Venetian mirror, a functional and precious element, made using the traditional art of Murano glass.

Personalized Gifts for Having Fun and Surprise

If you want to make people happy with your gift, it is important to choose an original item for them. In autumn, days become shorter and every minute becomes even more valuable.For this reason, among the gift ideas in Murano glass of this season are clocks to hang in the bedroom, living room or even in the kitchen with inimitable shapes and styles.

On websites such as OriginalMuranoGlass.com, there are a lot of ideas for a special gift, for a special occasion, for an event, all in different sizes and price ranges. Anyway, whatever the object you choose, it can be customized for your gift, so that you are certain of buying an original object in Murano glass, handmade by artisans who have been handed down the traditions of the art glass. Each artwork is customized with their sign and according to the colors, shapes and details you wish.

Gift ideas in Murano or Venice glass represent a “Made in Italy” choice, thanks to the artistic tradition and handmade masterwork, with all the charm and reliability that results from buying an original product. To learn more about personalized gift ideas, you may visit OriginalMuranoGlass.com that offers glass animal figurines, Murano glass sconces, table lamps, hand blown drinking glasses, drinking glass sets, glass bowls for centerpieces, exclusive vases, beaded necklaces, watches and clocks, bottle stoppers, photo frames, and many other items for weddings, birthdays, Christmas, Valentine’s Day, and corporate events.

Vintage Murano Glass – What Are Its Constituents?

The vintage Murano glass artwork has its roots in 1291 when, by decree of the Serenissima Republic, all the furnaces of Venice were moved to that island. From then on, as in the slow disentangling of a thread through the centuries, this activity has thrived reaching excellent creative heights and developing techniques and tools without ever betraying its identity. Behind the glass has grown a real world unique and unrepeatable, made of hands moving deftly, glances that run from the heat of the furnaces to the water used to cool the material, patience and rapidity of execution, suggestions and sayings forged by the long hours that glass masters and their assistants have spent together working shoulder to shoulder, day after day.

At the center of everything: what is the "partìa"?

At the base of this magic, there is a fitting composition of elements, known as "partia", a precise combination of substances that, depending on type and dosage of each ingredient, can open to the artist or craftsman an almost unlimited range of chromatic possibilities. There are four basic constituents:

•    Silica sand, which alone would melt at around 1750 degrees, thus making it impossible to manage at that temperature.

•    Soda precisely used to lower the melting temperature, in a range from about 1400 degrees to make it fall further and further.

•    Calcium carbonate, an element used to prevent the natural matting effect of soda in motion within the viscous liquid of the vitreous mass.

•    Rinse aid, usually antimony, which is the mean of getting faster clean and erasing small impurities.

To develop this basic composition - that lastly would become crystal glass - in order to obtain from the material the desired color tone come into play oxides, chemical elements one by one associated with a determined chromatic gradient.

To get the yellow, you must use the right amount of cadmium, selenium for the red, cobalt for the blue, copper flake for the green, cadmium and a part of selenium (mixture of oxides corresponding to the two primary colors yellow and red) for the orange, a little part of manganese for the purple amethyst, a bigger one for the black.

Vintage Murano glass has stood the test of time and is still loved and admired by countless art lovers across the world. Based in this iconic island itself, Original Murano Glass s.n.c. is the leading manufacturer and seller of hundreds of Murano glass artworks, realized by several ancient glass making techniques. Their website OriginalMuranoGlass.com carries a wide variety of Venetian glass lamps and chandeliers, Murano glass mirrors, blown glass figurines, drinking glassware, plates and bowls, blown vases, Murano beads Italy, etc. Ordering an artwork is straightforward and secure on this website. So, engross yourself in the beautiful world of Murano glass right away!

Contemporary Murano Glass Fusion – Looking at the 6 Steps Involved

One of the most ancient techniques became one of the most recent, thanks to a paradox of history. That is, the Murano glass fusion, the glass which is born from glass, neither from the moulding of sand, soda, carbonate or various oxides in the powerful furnaces, nor the half-processed glass of the rod used in the lamp working art. Instead it is created from a glass sheet, which is fragmented and recomposed according to a defined design, is melted and cooled again, alone or over other sheets.

Let’s take a look at the contemporary Murano glass fusion, step by step:

 

The modern electric or gas furnaces considerably simplify the production of glass-fused artworks, even if, in any case, the process is still very delicate and requires much competence of the artisans who use such technique.

Usually, these furnaces measure internally at most 200cm x 100cm, thus the glass sheets usedin this technique barely exceed such dimensions. The task of these machineries is of gradually heating the substance roughly at 820°C, which is the fusion point, and letting the substance become less and less viscous to solidifying again in the desired shape. A complete cycle takes around 10-12 hours, in accordance with the dimensions of the glass surface, the type of glass which composed the previous one.

1.    Many different objects can be created, from plates to decorated windows, from jewels to paperweight, but let us take the example of a generic ‘tableau’ made up of glassy pieces.The first step, in any case, is the planning with marker and cardboard. As if one is drawing a mosaic, from the soul of the starting imagination, one poses a beautiful female figure on a wooden background, drawing lines which divide the subject and background in many parts of different dimensions.

2.    Presenting the cardboard on the glass sheet of the selected colour for the dress – previously meticulously cleaned - the possible trees and shrubs in the foreground are cut through the cardboard and the glass.The action is done through a tool called ‘tagliavetro’ or ‘diamante’ and it is a sort of halfway between a marker and a scalpel. In many cases, an expert can draw the lines directly on the glass sheet – freehand – without using the cardboard.

3.    Once this kind of mosaicis reached, then the other parts are made in the same way. The glass pieces are now put on a transparent glass sheet, compatible with the glass used: such sheet would perform the function of a paper sheet, designed to embrace all the subjects.

4.    Through powdered metal oxides, each is tied to a particular colour, and the shades of the background are defined, dusting such material as icing sugar.

5.    Another powder – called ‘distaccante’ – is the agent used as homogeneous and thin layer on the refractory surface within the furnace.As one can easily understand, the aim is to prevent the glass from sticking.

6.    By now, as in a cooking recipe, everything is ready to turn on the oven. Continuing with the cooking metaphor, it is unquestionable that the expertise and the precision of the Murano masters, true top chefs of the glass, are the ingredients through which the best dishes can be done!

 

If you wish to shop for fused Murano or Venetian glass artworks online, OriginalMuranoGlass.com can provide you with plenty of choices, including glass photo frames, clocks, paperweights, Murano glass pendants, round and square plates, glass fish aquarium, glass sculptures, and so on. These items can prove to be original corporate gifts as well as wedding favors. This web-based superstore owns a Murano glass factory in the island, which one can visit to see the live glass blowing demonstration for free. Just book your visit at their website easily!