Murano magic

One of our goals to visit Europe this year was to take a trip to Venice, - home of Murano glass. Michael had previously contacted a company to book an appointment for purchasing some glass beads. Reaching Murano island from Venice was not a difficult task as there were water buses you could take and which ran frequently.

When we got to Murano, we began our search for the company location. Several wrong turns, buckets of sweat and one Morrocan man later, we found our place - Tommasi. Arriving there alone was exciting. We were greeted by a blond-hairerd teenage boy who went to fetch an adult. It turned out that she did not speak an English and so had to request him to stay with her to translate our conversations.

http://www.tommasi-store.com/catalogue/jewelry/index.htm

After a few minutes, we were led to the back, the store room, where all the beads and other things were kept. We could not contain our excitement as each box was opened to reveal the range in size and colours. About an hour later, we had a tray with many beads sizes and all square or cube shaped chosen out.

As the lady counted and bagged our choiced beads, we talked to the teenage boy, and it turns out, that is the owner's son. Ricardo was very pleasant to talk to and he was very keen in translating our inquiries. As well, he stayed back with the factory workers to help out, packaging pieces of jewelry that had been assembled by the other ladies.

We parted with about 2 lbs of precious glass beads and went on our way. We are very excited to create new pieces with these beads.