Murrine Glass

 The Murrina is the result of the cut of a wand of glass performed assembling different colors of glass with the purpose to perform a defined sketch. You can have different measures, from few millimeters until to 3-4 centimeters, according to the use and of the most suitable result to the teacher glassworker.

A wand of Murrina it is gotten with the approach of various types of colors in glassy pasta overlapped for forming the wanted sketch and brought to fusion. The result is this long reed whose section has the form and colors wanted by the glassmaker. Cut in disks of the varying length by few millimeters to 3 - 4 centimeters the gotten form: this is the Murrina.

The approach more murrine on a plate allows the workmanship of the same murrina both for the preparation of various objects, and for the decoration with the heat joining on great objects.

The single murrina often confuses him with the objects performed with the heat aggregation of the murrines.

In the Glass Museum in Murano you can see some combinations of different colored glasses which are very similar to modern murrine, but come from Roman excavations if the Phoenicians, the combinations of whom have very pleasing color, which has nothing inferior to current production and modern murrine.

Some furnaces have become specialized to perform murrina reeds, but the most beautiful murrine, even if it is an entirely subjective opinion, are those made by kilns which then use them for its own production. In this way they are able to perform the particular combinations of the original forms, which give the objects executed a touch of exclusivity and pleasantness unique and unmistakable for each furnace it produces claws.