Word: murano
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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...produce its new designs, Venice still uses the old methods it has passed from generation to generation. The glass is still made at Murano, a tiny group of interconnected islands out in a lagoon. Science has given the factories some new tricks, but it still takes master blowers using long, thin blowing canes of Roman design to turn out the glass. They sit on high wooden stools, watch while apprentices make the first rough shape, then step in and blow the final form...