The hotshop of the School is equipped in order to develop all the typical Murano techniques like glassblowing and solid working.

Among the hotshop techniques, glassblowing, in particular, already discovered by the end of the I century in the Middle East and spread during the Roman period, allows to create objects for daily use, from furnishing to lighting.

The glassblowing technique aims to realize objects like glasses, in particular the Venetian goblet, plates and vases.

Different types of decorations are applied, developing complex techniques such as filigree “à la façon de Venise” (zanfirico), reticella filigree, pick-up canes and murrina, and incalmo. Solid working enables to realize sculptures, artistic objects and objects of design.

Fusing, also called slumping, is a modern technique. It enables to create many different objects and works of art using different types of glass: the glass sheet can be modelled, at high temperatures, into various forms, for example, little pieces of murrine, frit, wires and sticks.

The use of oxides and enamels will give birth to incredible “paintings” with unexpected chromatic and three dimensional effects.

Fusing enables to create stained glass, objects, gifts items, sculptures-plates and costume jewellery with a lot of paintings interventions. Starting from colourless glass and working on various superimposed layers on the same object, a complex of contrasting colours or a shading sequence of colours is obtainable.

This is an ancient second-stage working technique, used in Venice since the Renaissance and developed then from the XVIII th century on. Semi-worked glass rods of different diameter and thickness are first softened by the heat of an horizontal flame fed by methane gas and oxygen (or air), then shaped with the help of small tools, making objects like small animals or human figures. Beads are made by softening a glass rod covered with detaching material. Through the lampworking technique, sculptures, figures, jewellery, drop earrings, rings can be created.

The mixture of methane gas and air and the consequent lower temperature allows more delicate decorations, typical of Venetian bead.