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Beaker making goes back a long period, as far as 5 centuries before the common era. Written records of Pliney, an ancient Roman historian, state that the Phoenician merchants living in the region of Syria were the earliest to inadvertently stumble upon an innovative new and useful substance called 'tumbler'. However, many myths and tradition cloak the real finding of tumbler. Lucky for us that this accident happend or there would be no Crystal Drinking Glasses today!

Wineglass production in the Egyptian times The delicate, and almost ethereal, shapes that wineglass makers fashion nowadays have progressed over the centuries. By 3500 B.C., beaker beads had begun adorning the upper-echelons of Egyptian civilization. Wineglass beads and amulets, dating back to pre-Roman eras have been said to be worn as far back as 2500 B.C. Throughout the pre-Roman times, goblet vessels were being made but the art of wineglass blowing had not yet been invented. The Egyptians and those in the Middle East were more often than not making tumbler mosaics.

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

In a short time, Rome began to dominate the wineglass marketplace, as it did in many other trades. Rome quickly became the ancient world's epicentre for production and distribution of blown wineglass and led to the Crystal Drinking Glasses that we have today.

Beaker workings in the Middle Ages throughout the Middle Ages, glass was primarily made as coloured embellishment for use in stained wineglass windows in the Gothic structure that dominated nearly all of Europe at that time.

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

Schooner-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, tumbler-making officially moved out of Venice to the then little-known and isolated island of Murano. These Murano wineglass blowers rapidly became the very last word in the sensitiveand period-consuming art of tumbler blowing, creating fine shapes and designs that would enthrall cominggenerations. But, at the price if their free will. No artisan or his relatives was allowed to depart the shores of Murano -- it was an offence punishable by death.

Murano artisans break out to Europe Still, many tumbler 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 glass was used for making rosaries as evidenced by some 13th century rosary beads that have been since discovered. These talented Murano beaker artisans also made a spectacular contribution to the method mirrors were made. Polished metallic mirrors started to give means to lovely schooner mirrors (women were delighted!) Nowadays, Crystal Drinking Glasses is much in demand!

Beaker 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 wineglass in China date to 221 B.C. - 220 A.D. It is assumed that blown wineglass was introduced to China by Persian goblet artists. Historians now attribute the incomplete awareness in goblet in ancient China to the incredible and common use of paper technology. For instance, in China windows were 'glazed' with strong, clear paper, not schooner panes. They simply did not see the need for tumbler!

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