Throughout the centuries in Murano the glass masters produced with glass several different kinds of
coloured rods, all meant to be used together by heating them and by constructing a whole mass of
glass which is then worked in a final shape. This tecniques were widely used until the 16th century, when the downfall of Murano glass industry began. When it was "rediscovered" by the middle of the 19th C a Venetian antique dealer called Sanfiriquo contracted in such quantities the Murano glass factories for objects made in this technique reproducing the earlier designs that the entire range of different designs was since then called simply Zanfirico.
Among the several designs of Zanfirico canes the most delicate is the half-filigree technique, the final aspect of a glass piece made in this technique is that of a piece completely "wrapped" in glass threads, all very close "packed" together.