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Beaker 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 district of Syria were the first to accidentally stumble upon a new and useful substance called 'wineglass'. However, many myths and legends veil the authentic finding of wineglass. Lucky for us that this accident happend or there would be no Drinking Glasses today!

Beaker making in the Egyptian era The beautiful, and very nearly ethereal, shapes that wineglass makers craft now have developed over the centuries. By 3500 B.C., schooner beads had begun 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. Throughout the pre-Roman times, goblet vessels were being completed but the fine art of goblet blowing had not yet been invented. The Egyptians and those in the Middle East were by and large making glass mosaics.

Romans find out wineglass blowing It was not until the 1st century BC that glass blowing, as it is recognized today, actually made an appearance in Syria (then under the Romans). This powerful discovery totally transformed the meanswineglass would henceforth be used and, ultimately, appear. The wearying task of wrapping goblet around a core to turn it into a vessel now became so much easier with the new goblet blowing technique. Swiftly, a whole view of infinite promise opened up before Roman tumbler artisans.

In a little instant, Rome began to dominate the wineglass market, as it did in many other trades. Rome rapidly became the ancient world's epicentre for invention and distribution of blown glass and led to the Drinking Glasses that we have today.

Beaker workings during the Middle Ages during the Middle Ages, wineglass was primarily made as coloured embellishment for use in stained beaker windows in the Gothic structure that dominated most of Europe at that period.

From Venice to Murano It was in this exciting period of change and discovery that goblet blowing began to be concentrated in Venice, which had no lessthan 8,000 glass artisans throughout the Middle Ages! The Italians, however, guarded their wineglass blowing secrets 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!

Wineglass-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 remote island of Murano. These Murano glass blowers rapidly became the last word in the sensitiveand period-consuming art of goblet blowing, creating delicate shapes and styles that would enthrall upcominggenerations. But, at the price if their liberty. No artisan or his family was allowed to go away the shores of Murano -- it was an offence liable to be punished by by death.

Murano artisans escape to Europe Still, many tumbler makers did manage to get away 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 beaker was used for making rosaries as evidenced by some 13th century rosary beads that have been since discovered. These talented Murano goblet artisans also made a spectacular contribution to the technique mirrors were made. Polished metal mirrors began to give manner to lovely goblet mirrors (women were delighted!) Nowadays, Drinking Glasses is much in demand!

Goblet blowing in China There is not much known about wineglass being made in China -- even while it was being moulded into brilliant 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 supposed that blown tumbler was introduced to China by Persian tumbler artists. Historians now attribute the incomplete awareness in wineglass in ancient China to the incredible and prevalent use of paper technology. For example, in China windows were 'glazed' with strong, see-through paper, not goblet panes. They simply did not see the need for tumbler!

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