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Beaker making goes back a extensive era, all the way to 5000 B.C. Writings from Pliny, a famous Roman historian, state that the Phoenician merchants living in the province of Syria were the first to fortuitously stumble upon a new and useful substance called 'schooner'. However, many myths and folklore veil the authentic finding of tumbler. Lucky for us that this accident happend or there would be no Antique Glassware today!

Glass production in the Egyptian period The beautiful, and nearly ethereal, shapes that wineglass makers generate today have progressed over the centuries. By 3500 B.C., schooner beads had begun adorning the upper-echelons of Egyptian society. Wineglass beads and amulets, dating back to pre-Roman eras have been said to be worn as far back as 2500 B.C. For the period of the pre-Roman times, goblet vessels were being completed but the art of wineglass blowing had not yet been invented. The Egyptians and those in the Middle East were typically making wineglass mosaics.

Romans learn schooner blowing It was not until the 1st century BC that tumbler blowing, as it is acknowledged today, actually made an appearance in Syria (then under the Romans). This dominant discovery totally transformed the methodwineglass would henceforth be used and, finally, appear. The wearisome task of wrapping beaker around a core to turn it into a vessel now became so much easier with the new goblet blowing technique. All of a sudden, a whole outlook of infinite possibilities opened up before Roman goblet artisans.

In a little time, Rome began to dominate the wineglass market, as it did in many other trades. Rome soon became the ancient world's epicentre for fabrication and supply of blown glass and led to the Antique Glassware that we have today.

Glass works during the Middle Ages all through the Middle Ages, beaker was primarily made as coloured adornment for use in stained goblet windows in the Gothic architecture that dominated the largest part of Europe at that time.

From Venice to Murano It was in this exciting period of change and discovery that glass blowing began to be concentrated in Venice, which had no fewerthan 8,000 tumbler artisans during the Middle Ages! The Italians, however, guarded their glass blowing techniques zealously, going so far as to even lay down a stern decree that made sharing or 'leaking' out wineglass-blowing techniques to outsiders as a punishable offence!

Beaker-making involved the extensive use of fire, which always a posed a risk to the crowded and timber-rich city of Venice. And, so in 1291, glass-making officially moved out of Venice to the then little-known and isolated island of Murano. These Murano wineglass blowers before long became the final word in the delicateand time-consuming art of schooner blowing, creating superb shapes and types that would enthrall cominggenerations. But, at the price tag if their free will. No artisan or his family was allowed to go away the shores of Murano -- it was an offence punishable by death.

Murano artisans escape to Europe Still, many goblet makers did manage to break out Murano and it was they who spread the art of beaker blowing outside Venice and introduced it to Tyrol, Vienna, Flanders, France and England. The earliest Venetian wineglass was used for making rosaries as evidenced by some 13th century rosary beads that have been since discovered. These talented Murano glass artisans also made a spectacular contribution to the means mirrors were made. Polished metal mirrors began to give means to lovely goblet mirrors (women were delighted!) Nowadays, Antique Glassware is much in demand!

Schooner blowing in China There is not much known about goblet being made in China -- even while it was being moulded into fantastic shapes and decorative pieces in far away Rome. The earliest records of tumbler in China date to 221 B.C. - 220 A.D. It is believed that blown wineglass was introduced to China by Persian wineglass artists. Historians now attribute the restricted attention in tumbler in ancient China to the incredible and general use of paper technology. For example, in China windows were 'glazed' with strong, clear paper, not goblet panes. They simply did not see the need for tumbler!

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