Murano glass is a type of handmade glass that is made in the Venetian
islands of Murano. Murano glass beads are a famous product of this
particular place and every year a large number of bead lovers travel to
Murano just to get their hands on these ornate creations. Murano glass
beads are beautiful and colourful and they have been around for
centuries. There is a special process used in their creations and today
you don't have to travel all the way to Murano to get them, but you can
purchase them conveniently online.
Murano glass beads can be used
in the creation of all types of jewelry items such as necklaces,
bracelets, anklets, pendants, earrings and much more. You can combine
them with other types of beads such as crystal beads to create stunning
artistic pieces. These beads have been influenced by the makers of
Venetian glass and they have been around since 1291. Glassmakers in
those days used a number of technologies such as enamelled glass,
crystalline glass, multicoloured glass, milk glass, glass consisting of
threads of gold as well as imitation gemstones created from glass and
produced beads that are still unmatched around the world.
Color
The
first step towards the creation of Murano glass beads is production of
colored canes. It is important that the chemical compounds used in their
color fabrication are mixed very accurately because they are quite
sensitive. A combination of different compounds is used to achieve
different colors. For example when cobalt and copper is combined, the
resulting color of glass is aquamarine.
Lampworked Beads
One
of the techniques that are commonly used in the creation of these beads
is lampworking. A torch or air pump burner and mandrel is used to make
these beads. Previously, mandrels were made using iron rods and were
covered with a release material, but now the process makes use of a
copper tube. This helps create different shapes of beads.
Although
the lampwork method is time consuming, the outcome is beautiful and
stunning. Each bead has to be produced individually and they are usually
quite expensive as well.
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