Nowadays we use mirrors several times a day to check our own reflections. A long time ago, they to be precious possessions. They were luxuries and only rich had mirrors in their houses. Although today nearly every shoeshop and café has lots of mirrors, was once a feeling of magic and mystery around them.
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, mirror workshops were set up in France and England when Venetian glass-workers emigrated and passed on their secrets. People began to hang mirrors on walls in the same way pictures and a household was not complete one.