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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 inhabiting the district of Syria were the first to accidentally stumble upon an innovative new and useful substance called 'beaker'. However, many myths and legends veil the actual finding of tumbler. Lucky for us that this accident happend or there would be no vintage glassware with ladies today!

Glass production in the Egyptian era The wonderful, and almost ethereal, shapes that glass manufacturers fashion nowadays have developed over the centuries. By 3500 B.C., tumbler beads had started 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. For the period of the pre-Roman times, beaker vessels were being completed but the art of beaker blowing had not yet been invented. The Egyptians and those in the Middle East were more often than not making wineglass mosaics.

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

In a short time, Rome started to dominate the goblet marketplace, 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 vintage glassware with ladies that we have today.

Beaker workings throughout the Middle Ages throughout the Middle Ages, glass was primarily made as coloured adornment for use in stained beaker windows in the Gothic structure that dominated most of Europe at that time.

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

Glass-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 secluded island of Murano. These Murano schooner blowers almost immediately became the last word in the sensitiveand era-consuming art of tumbler blowing, creating exquisite shapes and patterns that would enthrall cominggenerations. But, at the cost if their liberty. No artisan or his family was allowed to go away the shores of Murano -- it was an offence punishable by death.

Murano artisans break out to Europe Still, many tumbler makers did manage to break out 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 tumbler was used for making rosaries as evidenced by some 13th century rosary beads that have been since discovered. These talented Murano glass artisans also made a spectacular contribution to the way mirrors were made. Polished metal mirrors began to give means to lovely wineglass mirrors (women were delighted!) Nowadays, vintage glassware with ladies is much in demand!

Glass 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 schooner in China date to 221 B.C. - 220 A.D. It is thought that blown tumbler 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 example, in China windows were 'glazed' with strong, clear paper, not glass panes. They simply did not see the need for glass!

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