High Middle Ages · Europe · Technology
1293
Venetian glass industry consolidated on Murano
1293
The Venetian Republic ordered all its glassmakers to relocate their furnaces to the island of Murano, ostensibly to reduce fire risk but also to guard trade secrets. The concentration of talent produced an explosion of innovation in cristallo glass, mirrors, and beadwork that made Murano synonymous with glass for centuries.
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Era
High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.