The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-11-10
VENETIAN ARTS AND
 WONDERS OF OLDEN TIMES.
A Description of Some of the City's Products-Murano Mosaic Arts
 Point Lace Originated

Gaura A. Smith in Indianapolis star
 Today Venice supplies the world with mosaics, glass beads and other products of her glass works. Outslue the city, at Murano, lies one Of the oldest and biggest of these, Salv1ttI s.
 Girolamo Magnaiti du Murano in l6Oo
 first discovered the way of colorlng
 glass without destroying it's transpar-
 ency.
 I had to learn many new things
 upon this, my first trip abroad. one
 was to realize the great industry or making mosaics. had no ldea now many, many facades of buildings ceilings were decorated with mosalcs. ments the facade of Stamford MIC
 morial church at Palo Alto, Cal. In St. Peters, in Rome, there are pic lures in mosaic that one cannot tell from paintings. When l was urged to visit a mosaic factory mentally said: Whats the use? Nothing in-- teresting there" But when l passed through a tiny backyard into the Sal yitti's mosaic factory-atel1er, as they call all the workrooms here-I changed my mind as 10 tne non.n ,iri- | portance of masoic-making. Two nun dred men sit breaking the small cell
 cate glass rods of many colors into | tiny bits, grinding and smoothing these fragments. They use a nam
 mer and small steel tool 70 preak iA l u the delicate way their finders proceed.
 Stones of Two Thousand Shades. 1 In compartments of boxes are the | assorted coIors These shades range up to 2,OOO in number. In one room | sit the artists. Each has large
 nainting for a model. On the table l lies a sketch or section of a picture e
 glass and sets it in it's place upon the paper with an adhesive cement. A mosaic picture i5 enduring. so the artist who so patiently builds his de- signs or glass knows 1t will neither fade in sun nor storm. One cele- hrafed mosaicist, Lorenzo Radi, dis covered Byzantine secrets Of counter feiting in gold stone onyx, chalcedony | malachite and other natural stones.
 It was most fascinating to watch
 these artists building pictures wltn
 fairylike pieces of glass. nad srea'
 schemes for perfecting picture pug
 gle, which should be made or the same bits. However,I decided it woulc
 involve too much time and hard Work "a thing always to be avoided 1T pos
 stble. After the pictures we saw them
 making the dainty little brooches ano
 other 3ewelry You can see 'n e sn ', any shop, and the great trick or buy T ing them abroad is to be sure the mo
 l,saicx are set in~ perfectly As to the Venetian glass beads, however, buy them in Venice To be sure, you car get them, perhaps, just as cheap II
 other Italian cities. but you canno , find the variety. The glass covered with gold-in fact, all the beads arr | SD fascinating that one wishes sh' could be a Christmas tree for just on' , dav and be hung with these daZzllns beads.
 7 The Gold Chain of Venice
 3 Then there is the famous Venetian gold chain, the making or WnIcn II g longer occupies hundreds of WorK ] men. Still you can find !e" silop g in the Rialto where the chain, me r wire is wound upon spools or hang e in the windows. It is so flexible an v fine if can be folded and wound lnu - any shape. It is no longer worn say s by old-fashioned people, and many T baby at christening is literally s"a.li s ed in the chain. Country people an d working people put their money I these chains to keep it. They say a eff I keep my money, l spend It, II n buy this chain, it is always money: . In the glorious days of the repupii = and Shyfock the cham Was ..ie r sewing silk The patrician danes e Venice had their robes of Genoa vel : wei heavily embroidered with thes s chains. The workingmen pald mor e than they earned making the chan .- for it cost them their eyeslght: l. was in this fifteenth century olilr > when all the riches of nations can
 pouring into Venice, that dressin e reached it's greatest extravaganc ts The danes wore fortunes in the e robes of rich material trimmed It gems. silver and gold lace, shVef Du ot tons ringing with silver bells.
 or Wonderful Laces
 h No letter on the trades, 1ndustr. ,. to | and arts of Venice would be lett