Venetian Glassmaking Industry

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"The history of the Venetian glass industry mirrors the economic and political history of the Serene Republic. As the city established its supremacy over trade between western Europe and the eastern Mediterranean glassmaking, along with other manufactures, was a significant supplementary industry--drawing in raw materials from the east and exporting glassware to the west. But the importance of the industry increased enormously when, in the fifteenth century, Venice was besieged by its neighbors and its trade was threatened by the advancing Ottoman Turks. The city began to develop its industries in a conscious plan designed to compensate for the loss of trade. Technical innovations, accompanied by great political and financial investment, put the glass trade in the vanguard of the city's successful substitution of industry for trade. Glassmaking had.."

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