Carnival Glass

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Glass making goes back a long period, as far as 5 centuries before the common era. Writings from Pliny, a famous Roman historian, state that the Phoenician merchants living in the area of Syria were the earliest to by chance encounter a new and useful substance called 'wineglass'. However, many myths and legends blanket the definite discovery of schooner. Lucky for us that this accident happend or there would be no Carnival Glass today!

Goblet production in the Egyptian epoch The wonderful, and virtually ethereal, shapes that goblet makers craft these days have evolved over the centuries. By 3500 B.C., tumbler beads had started adorning the upper-echelons of Egyptian the social order. Schooner beads and amulets, dating back to pre-Roman eras have been said to be worn as far back as 2500 B.C. During the pre-Roman times, beaker vessels were being made but the fine art of schooner blowing had not yet been invented. The Egyptians and those in the Middle East were more often than not making glass mosaics.

Romans discover glass blowing It was not until the 1st century BC that tumbler blowing, as it is recognized today, actually made an appearance in Syria (then under the Romans). This potent finding utterly transformed the mannerbeaker would henceforth be used and, ultimately, appear. The wearisome task of wrapping tumbler around a core to turn it into a vessel now became so much easier with the new schooner blowing technique. Suddenly, a whole outlook of limitless possibilities opened up before Roman schooner artisans.

In a brief time, Rome started to dominate the tumbler market, as it did in many other trades. Rome shortly became the ancient world's epicentre for invention and supply of blown wineglass and led to the Carnival Glass that we have today.

Tumbler works during the Middle Ages for the period of the Middle Ages, wineglass was primarily made as coloured adornment for use in stained goblet windows in the Gothic architecture that dominated most of Europe at that period.

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

Glass-making concerned 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 secluded island of Murano. These Murano tumbler blowers rapidly became the very last word in the delicateand period-consuming art of wineglass blowing, creating lovely shapes and types that would enthrall cominggenerations. But, at the fee if their freedom. No artisan or his family unit was allowed to depart the shores of Murano -- it was an offence punishable by death.

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

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

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