When a fan walked up to Tracy Chevalier in Italy and pressed two small books into her hand, she had no idea it would send her ...

We went one day to Murano, the island in the Venetian lagoon ... People have been making glass in the same way for thousands of years. The oldest glass piece I own is a bead made by Phoenicians ...

Venetian glassmakers revived it 700 years later, reinforcing the form’s Italian ... beads or disks, thus revealing the dazzling patterns of their cross sections. As such, Millefiori glass ...

Researchers have concluded that glass beads excavated from the tomb of a king in Fukuoka Prefecture were likely brought to Japan through the ancient Silk Road trade route network. A group of ...

The seven Storie Veneziane scents are packaged like jewels in richly colored, Venetian glass bottles ... including hand-stitched Italian leather securing the bottle caps, was hand-fashioned ...

I'll go straight to the point: the perfect Murano glass chandelier doesn't exist ... aspirations converging into the making of the famed Venetian staple, starting with those adopted by three ...

The research was based on tiny glass beads found on the lunar surface, which suggest that active volcanism was present on the Moon until relatively recently. The beads were found by Chang’e 5 ...

The Venetian tradition of perline (glass beads) goes back at least to the 13th century ... bookshop houses a thoughtfully curated collection of publications in Italian and English that will draw in ...

Although some of the most famous glass in the world comes from Murano (a series of islands in the Venetian Lagoon ... in 14th century Italy, creates a “wound bead”. The trickiest part came ...

Italy launched an ancestry-based tourism initiative called Italea this year. The project will be introduced in New York in October. Travelers come to Italy to seek out its splendid art cities and ...