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Goblet 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 region of Syria were the first to by chance stumble upon an innovative and useful substance called 'beaker'. However, many myths and tradition cloak the definite finding of glass. Lucky for us that this accident happend or there would be no Fenton Glass today!

Schooner making in the Egyptian era The fine, and almost ethereal, shapes that tumbler makers form now have progressed over the centuries. By 3500 B.C., goblet beads had begun adorning the upper-echelons of Egyptian culture. 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, glass vessels were being completed but the fine art of tumbler blowing had not yet been invented. The Egyptians and those in the Middle East were habitually making schooner mosaics.

Romans determine tumbler 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 finding fully transformed the meanswineglass would henceforth be used and, ultimately, appear. The dull task of wrapping beaker 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 countless possibilities opened up before Roman wineglass artisans.

In a short time, Rome started to dominate the tumbler market, as it did in many other trades. Rome before long became the ancient world's epicentre for invention and distribution of blown beaker and led to the Fenton Glass that we have today.

Glass workings during the Middle Ages for the duration of the Middle Ages, wineglass was primarily made as coloured ornamentation for use in stained glass windows in the Gothic buildings that dominated nearly all of Europe at that time.

From Venice to Murano It was in this exciting period of change and discovery that schooner blowing began to be concentrated in Venice, which had no fewerthan 8,000 wineglass 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 wineglass-blowing techniques to outsiders as a punishable offence!

Wineglass-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, beaker-making officially moved out of Venice to the then little-known and faraway island of Murano. These Murano beaker blowers quickly became the very last word in the delicateand era-consuming art of tumbler blowing, creating exquisite shapes and styles that would enthrall cominggenerations. But, at the cost if their freedom. No artisan or his family was allowed to leave the shores of Murano -- it was an offence punishable 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 wineglass 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 beaker artisans also made a spectacular contribution to the mode mirrors were made. Polished metal mirrors began to give means to lovely schooner mirrors (women were delighted!) Nowadays, Fenton Glass is much in demand!

Tumbler blowing in China There is not much known about wineglass 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 believed that blown goblet was introduced to China by Persian wineglass artists. Historians now attribute the limited awareness in beaker in ancient China to the incredible and general use of paper technology. For instance, in China windows were 'glazed' with strong, see-through paper, not wineglass panes. They simply did not see the need for tumbler!

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