The art of Murano glass 05:37. ... So, by order of the doge, or ruler of the time, glassmakers were moved to the island of Murano in 1291. Examples of Murano glass. CBS News ...

By the late 1400s the glass blowers of Murano — named for the island to which they had been ordered because their ovens were a fire hazard among the wooden palaces of Venice — had established ...

Murano glass from that era remains coveted by collectors and designers, but the following decades were less fruitful: Since the end of the 20th century, more than half of the island’s industrial ...

It is not easy to become a glass "maestro" on the Italian island of Murano VENICE -- Nicola Causin was 17 years old when he started working with glass. "It was like falling in love," he said. That ...

Tony Veljaca is a Venetian who repatriated after a hospitality career overseeing world class hotels with world famous guests in Australia and London. He now serves as general manager of the landmark ...

In 1994 my husband and I took our honeymoon in Venice. We went one day to Murano, the island in the Venetian lagoon famed for ...

Today, Murano island remains a pretty small place. A collection of tiny islands connected by bridges and canals, the whole only about one mile in diameter with some 5,000 residents.

Put it on the list of things that should be impossible: pieces of glass more than 700 years old. I can't even keep glasses alive in my kitchen for more than a few seasons. But then that's why I've ...

A glass-worker heats a glass artistic creation in a methane powered oven in Murano island, Venice, Italy, Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni) by: COLLEEN BARRY, Associated Press ...