 Cane is also used to make murrine (singular ‘’murrina’’, sometimes called mosaic glass), thin discs cut from the cane in cross-section that are also added to blown or hot-worked objects.A particular form of murrine glasswork is millefiori (“thousand flowers”), in which many murrine with a flower-like or star-shaped cross-section are included in a blown glass piece.Caneworking is an ancient technique, first invented in southern Italy in the second half of the third century BC, and elaborately developed centuries later on the Italian island of Murano.