About Blue Bus Studio

Millefiori, literally Italian for 'thousand flowers,' is a ancient technique of combining colored glass rods to make canes of color. Cross-sections were (and still are by artists throughout the world) sliced, combined, and used to create beads, paperweights, vases, etc. This technique was brought to high distinction on Murano, an island in the lagoon of Venice, in the middle ages but was used far earlier by the Romans and Egyptians, with some archeologists dating its inception as far back as the first millennium B.C. The use of colored clays in the same way, called neriage or nerikome in Japan, is a ceramic application of the technique.

Our name 'Blue Bus' comes from the life of Meher Baba (1894-1969), whose life and work has been a source of great inspiration to us. In 1939 Meher Baba and a group of his close associates made an lengthy tour of India in a small blue bus. Like all the great ones, his message can be summed up this way: the goal of life is to free ourselves in the love of God.