Murano - An island of Venice which specializes in glass blowing. Sons of the Murano glass blowers must agree to stay in Murano before they are taught the secrets of glass blowing. At age 16, they began their apprenticeship. Their wages are based on their level of skill and that continues thruout their life.
Burano - Another island in Venice. It specializes in lace making. They call it "stitching in the air". A handmade lace tablecloth will sell between $750 - $5000. Each piece is a masterpiece, but due to machine lacework, it is also a dying art.
Each of the houses in Burano is painted a different color. The reason for this, we are told, is that originally the homes were all alike. The men of this town would leave early in the morning to fish and when they returned to port at night, tired and exausted, they would sometimes wonder into the wrong home and wake up with the wrong wife! So they painted each of the houses a different color and now there is no excuse. They houses painted more than one color, have more than one family living there.
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