Michael Glancy discusses how Lino Tagliapietra felt the glass tradition in Murano was dying. Oral history interview with Michael Glancy by Barb Elam, conducted via telephone, October 9, 2018, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 00:58.

Michael Glancy: The—glass, because of the Venetian tradition, I think, glass has always been very secretive, from the alchemists’ time to the fact that no Venetian glassworker would reveal their techniques outside of Murano because it’s a state secret, and their families would be imprisoned if they did—and so this is really quite controversial for Lino to have brought so much information out of Murano, but Lino said that the glass industry in Murano was dying making candy, glass candy and clowns for the tourists. You know, the only people that were doing anything significant were the Americans, and he’s going over there.