Specialties
How to create glass beads
with Murano glass ,.
To increase your creativity
and fantasy with the fire and the glass
How to create glass beads Murano developing creativity and imagination with the
fire and the glass at school of the maestro Rankoussi.
The basic course (level I) is divided into 4 lessons each one three hours.
The purpose is to learn how to shape glass beads variously decorated with the
technique of lampworking without the use of special tools.
The course fee (320 €) includes the use of the necessary tools: the flame, and
the glass rods used for the production of beads that remain to participants at the
end of the lessons.
At the first level course (which guarantees the realization of spherical beads
and not only decorated ..) follow advanced courses of various levels for the creation
of artistic beads technically more sophisticated.
The course information will be updated on the web beadshopitaly , courses
History
Established in 1986.
In the workshop located in Sora Street 30 \ 31 in Rome Italy , Rankoussi Mazen master glass-maker works with lamp-work glass Technical Original derived from long experience staff in the field and in his creations Rankoussi merges two sensitivities and two schools crafts of high Tradition:the old Syrian style and the modern, which originates from experience of the masters of Murano and assumes numerous interpretations .
Meet the Business Owner: Rankoussi M R.
According to Plinius the Elder (Naturalis Historia) some Phoenician merchants incidentally discover on the Belo beach in the rest of fire a solid and transparent mass: the glass.
From this moment has begun in the Middle East and particulary in Syria an important glass productions: vases, cups but also beads, necklaces, bracelets. The Syrians travelled in Mediterranean sea during the centuries and exported the new technique of blown glass.
Such activity continues without interruption until now in the Middle East areas.
The holder of the laboratory, Mazen Rankoussi, Syrian of Damascus, is the hier a long familiary tradition of master and goldsmiths. In his numeorus travels in India, Turkey, Egypt and in Europe has learned and experimented many technique of glass working according to ancient and modern style, joining the coloured brightness of oriental beads . Since 1986 inserted in the world of fashoin and the costume jewellery in Syria; in Egypt, he has taken part to important part of i
