After eight centuries of Murano glassmaking, a gas crisis is threatening its future

[hippywife]

3. That's really terrible to hear.

Every time you think you've heard some of the worst of what's going on, there's something else that you'd never even considered. To have something like this, continuously going on for centuries, being so impacted by idiocy and greed, which is the at the root of it, is just insanity.

I'm now going to fear for the Czech glass makers, who have also been creating such beautiful glass for centuries, as they're likely to be in the same situation. Their beads are all I buy and use.