What is the difference between glass and Murano glass?

Murano glass works are characterized by small imperfections, due to the craftsmanship of the manufacturing process. This is precisely the difference between Murano glass and glass made through industrial mechanisms, which make it much smoother, bubble-free, and equally realizable over an infinite number of times.

Murano glass, unlike classical glass, is instead crafted by the expert hands of Master Glassmakers, whose techniques have been handed down for centuries from father to son. The heritage of Murano thus represents not only an invaluable asset for its great quality, uniqueness and careful stylistic study, but above all for the culture, tradition and art of which it is the bearer.

The difference then between Murano glass and industrial glass also lies in price: industrial items are readily available at low, market prices, while a Murano glass piece will only be able to be purchased at high prices, given the very high quality of the final product. But Murano glass also differs from “normal”glass in the very materials from which it is made: in fact, Murano glass is composed of an extremely pure silica sand, which is enriched with sodium carbonate to facilitate the material’s malleability even at lower temperatures. Calcium, on the other hand, is added to glass of an industrial nature to increase its strength.