Historical roots of Italian glass Watches

The history of Italian Glass is centered around the city, and it's still important today. Looking back, it seems the order of 1291 was a cornerstone in the overwhelming and enduring success of Venetian glass.Trace back the history of fine glass making, Italian or otherwise, and you'll find it's a skill passed from generation to generation, moving with the Artisans. The art of glass making that was born in Mesopotamia around 3500 BC eventually reached Egypt. The Egyptians learnt to make hollow glass objects by wrapping molten glass around a core mould, then rolling it on a smooth surface to give it the desired shape.In the 1st century BC the new method of glass making - glass blowing - was invented somewhere along the Mediterranean Coast and was quickly commercialized by the Romans. In this method some molten glass was attached to the end of a thin hollow tube. A glassmaker would then blow through this tube, thus producing various shapes out of the molten glass. Later this method was enhanced to blow the molten glass into a mould which allowed creation of a wide variety of hollow glass items.As Rome fell and Europe slid into the dark ages, Venice eventually emerged as the glassmaking center of the Western world. Pretty much all Italian glass that we know of today came from Venice. The connections of the Venetian merchants with Syria and Byzantium along with Venice