Are you still worried about preparing a unique and meaningful gift for your mom or friends? Why not have a try to make a handmadelampwork beads jewelry?
Lampwork beads are made with a type of soft glass or hard glass. This glass comes in rods about the thickness of a pencil. The rod is heated in the flame until it becomes soft, and then is manipulated on a metal rod called a mandrel into bead designs. The final step is a process called annealing which hardens the bead over several hours in a kiln. It is a time consuming and painstaking process that can take hours to complete depending on the complexity of the design.
Handmade Blown Glass Beads
Lampwork is an ancient technique of using a flame to melt glass. Hot glass working skills came to us from a long history starting with the Chinese around 550BC. They are colorful and graceful. Colored glaze appeared early in the Warring States Period. In ancientChina, the pure colored glaze art works are very rare, for lack of all kinds of elaborate instruments so that the production is very hard. As the quantity of colored glaze art works is limited, they only can be used by royals and nobles. It is means that the colored glaze beads (lampwork beads) are the symbol of dignity in ancient.
Handmade Blown Glass Beads
Today, lampwork beads are widely used in jewelry making, and there are so many suppliers around the world. Where is the best place to buy? The answer isChina. And PandaHall.com will be a wise choice. Julie, a jewelry maker fromUSA, said:” As my sister will be turning 18 very soon. I wanted to give her something really special to mark the occasion. I decided to make a charm bracelet by using her favorite colors, by attaching pink and yellow lampwork beads onto a chain with a silver “18”pendant. I also added one of the heart charms with word “made with love” on it. All the items are purchased from PandaHall.com. Making memorable jewelry gifts is so much easier now after I got a lot of information and assistances from PandaHall.com. And I am very pleased with the items I purchased from PandaHall too.”
Handmade Lampwork Beads Strands
Many jewelry designers like to use lampwork beads to make necklaces, earrings and bracelets. If you are interested in making such unique and meaningful jewelry gifts, just have a try. While, at first, I would like to say you’d better to find a reliable jewelry supplier for you first. Enjoy your jewelry making.
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