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Beaker making goes back a extensive period, all the way to 5000 B.C. Writings from Pliny, a famous Roman historian, state that the Phoenician merchants living in the region of Syria were the earliest to fortuitously come across a new and useful substance called 'schooner'. However, many myths and tradition cloak the actual discovery of schooner. Lucky for us that this accident happend or there would be no Fenton Glassware today!

Goblet production in the Egyptian times The delicate, and very nearly ethereal, shapes that glass manufacturers produce nowadays have evolved over the centuries. By 3500 B.C., schooner beads had started adorning the upper-echelons of Egyptian civilization. Goblet beads and amulets, dating back to pre-Roman eras have been said to be worn as far back as 2500 B.C. For the duration of the pre-Roman times, wineglass vessels were being made but the art of goblet blowing had not yet been invented. The Egyptians and those in the Middle East were as a rule making wineglass mosaics.

Romans learn glass blowing It was not until the 1st century BC that beaker blowing, as it is acknowledged today, actually made an appearance in Syria (then under the Romans). This great discovery totally changed the waytumbler would henceforth be used and, ultimately, appear. The monotonous task of wrapping beaker around a core to turn it into a vessel now became so much easier with the new schooner blowing technique. Rapidly, a whole outlook of limitless possibilities opened up before Roman beaker artisans.

In a short time, Rome started to dominate the beaker marketplace, as it did in many other trades. Rome quickly became the ancient world's epicentre for construction and distribution of blown schooner and led to the Fenton Glassware that we have today.

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

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

Tumbler-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, wineglass-making officially moved out of Venice to the then little-known and isolated island of Murano. These Murano goblet blowers rapidly became the final word in the sensitiveand period-consuming art of glass blowing, creating lovely shapes and designs that would enthrall upcominggenerations. But, at the price tag if their free will. No artisan or his relatives was allowed to leave the shores of Murano -- it was an offence punishable by death.

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

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

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