Artist Notes:
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Wish your brother and sister-in-law a Happy 12th Anniversary with a card featuring a burgundy wine bottle and two glasses with gold stems. The background is a light beige with burgundy romance text. Fun facts: When the Venetian glassmakers began to purify their raw materials to remove elements that were causing colour, they inadvertently removed some of the things that were making the glass durable, like lime, which acted as a stabiliser. This meant that the original clear glasses could start to deteriorate quite quickly in normal air. The symptoms of glass disease were initially “weeping”, when moisture caused alkali to be leached out of the glass, and “crizzling”, a series of very fine cracks caused by the loss of alkali that eventually caused the glass to fall apart.
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