Venetian Glass  by Adele Kenny Blown glass has been made on the small islands of Murano for at least 700 years. Murano’s islands lie on the edge of the Adriatic Sea in the lagoon of Venice, about three quarters of a mile north of the larger Venetian islands. Although much of the earliest Venetian glass history is subject to conjecture, it is clear that as Murano took on an industrial “personality,” it gained distinction as the glassmaking capital of the world. >> Read the full article...		6/1/2004