From Italy With Love

Murrina Glass

For this Club we draw inspiration from the mastery of the Murano glass masters.

During our retreat in Murano we visited the glass factory Schiavon Art, and we were fascinated by the production of the Murrina Glass. We immediately thought to create something special for our knitters.

It took a while but we now finally some wonderful handmade stitch markers for you all. The pearls are made with Murrina Glass which is typical of Murano Island and the stitch markers are assembled by the expert hands of a very patient female artisan who spent her life creating jewellery.

Each stitch makers is unique and irreplicable.

Murrina Glass is obtained by a glass stick, entirely handmade using a
particular technique, which is known only on the island of Murano and includes
several passages and overlaps, and it’s made with exclusively artisan techniques,
which give the glass a cylindrical shape, after marbling it several times on a metallic
surface, called “ bronzìn”.

It’s an ancient technique, dated back to the beginning of ‘900. Nowadays, only two small factory in the world based in Murano, can realize the original Venetian Murrina glass stick. They are able to satisfy just a small part of the innumerable requests, because of the difficulty in finding highly specialized staff, who know this particular technique, and the lack of young and motivated Murano master glass.