Venice is famous for it's glass. There's an island that all the glass gets blown and shaped. They aren't in the city because the ovens caused to many fires.
We saw a demonstration. The man doing it used a long hollow tube with melted glass on the end. When the glass was on he would roll it in different powders to give it different colours. Then he would blow through the tube and use a variety of tools to shape it. The first thing he made was a plate. The next thing he made was a horse. He did it in under a minute! He had to keep the glass soft by puting it in the 1000 degree oven every couple minutes.
After that we saw the finished glass. It were gorgeous! One of my favourite ones was a band of glass clowns.
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