Lattimo, a delicate and opaque white glass that resembles fine porcelain, takes its name from latte, the Italian word for milk. At the time of its invention, Europeans sought a material to rival the popular white Chinese porcelain and artisans in Venice worked on a solution, bringing Lattimo glass items like vases and drinking vessels to the marketplace by the end of the 15th century. Latticino is a variation of Lattimo, meaning glass inlaid with threads of lattimo set in a net or spiral pattern.
Lampwork items are made from rods or canes of glass melted over a small burner. The most famous examples of this kind of work, as known as "lume" from the Italian word for torch; lumè, are murano glass beads. Other types of articles produced in this manner, including miniature animals, flowers, figures and candy are embedded in larger glass items such as paperweights.
Murrine or murrhine is a type of glass made from colored or patterned cross-cut slices of glass rods which are inserted into the main body of the glass before it is shaped by blowing. These rods are constructed from layers of different colored glass, with or without the use of a form to give the rod a particular shape. Beads and jewelry made from millefiori, a mosaic-patterned murrine meaning "thousand flowers" in Italian, are the best-known examples of murrine glass.
Filigree is a type of Italian glass that features ribbons of one or more colors of glass embedded into the plain glass body and twisted during the blowing process to produce swirls and diamond patterns. Variations include "Filigrana a retortoli," i a twisted type of filigree glass made by embedding alternate sections of spiral latticino and colored glass ribbons. Examples of this type of glass are found in Venetian lamps and wine glasses.
Avventurina or aventurine, as it is spelled in Venice, sommerso and d'oro are all types of glass decorated with metals. Avventurina glass features small crystals of copper, suspended within the glass, which resemble flecks of gold. D'Oro glass is decorated with 24-karat gold foil sheets, which are fired to bond onto the surface. Sommerso glass consists of multiple layers of uncolored glass and gold foil applied over a single-colored base. Examples of these styles of Italian glass are found in chandeliers, beads and drinking goblets.