A video description of a glass working fase in Filigrana technic
The filigrana is made by posing togheter canes of different color glass
Glass Master working on a glass horse. Watch it!
Due to the high demand about a video of the biggest
Christmas Tree in glass blown in Murano ( more info )
Venixe made this sample video for all the Murano glass funs that they can not come to visit it in the square, until 6 January 2007.
The video has been taken in Campo Santo Stefano in the surrealistic island of Murano, near Venice.
A great video of the lagoon of Venice:
Murano island is part and very near to the beautiful Venice , from centruries the venitian tradet the glass blown in Murano . Originally the glass factories (fornace) was situated in Venice.
In the 1291 year, the old venitian republic decided that all the factories must be moved from Venice to Murano because of the many dangerous open fired.
Two video of the Chandelier work, leaf hand made and a light cup blown:
The work group that joins forces to create a given article is known as a "piazza". It includes a Master (Maestro, this is the main artist), glass-maker, and a variable number of assistants, depending on the working cycle involved. The two people that help the Maestro directely, getting involved in the essential phases of the process, are called the "servente" and the "serventino", in the video M. Dei Rossi. All the different type of equipment used in working the glass and their names have been the same for centuries. They are made of wood or metal, they are indispensable tools that enable the Maestro to express his art. These videos are made by VENIXE in Leon Bianco Fornace, the glass master working on the Chandelier is C. Padoan.
