“Oh my gosh! I fancy your sea glass jewelry!” Invariably I hear this at each craft reveal in which I participate. Why is beach glass jewelry an instant hit with expose patrons?
I own that sea glass jewelry reminds us all of a simpler time in our lives when we could use hours searching the shore for that perfect shell or shark’s tooth. The feel of a hunk of found beach glass can hump us away to a time when relaxation and fun came naturally to us. It helps us re-live childhood memories vacation and summer with our friends.
So what exactly is this wondrous sea glass?
Sea glass is a fragment of glass that has been weathered by the surf over time. The waves roll the glass serve and forth until you have a frosted aloof morsel of glass. Also known as Beach glass or Mermaid’s Tears, it has been found in a wide variety of colors and shapes.
Created mainly from broken bottles and other litter, found beach glass has become increasingly rare in past years. However, the ask for it has increased as these lovely treasures are being feeble in more artistic and fashion endeavors. To absorb this seek information from many artists have begun to exhaust reproduction sea glass.
Beach found Glass
Created in the oceans and lakes, this like has a frosted level-headed appearance from afar. Once you observe it up halt, you will secure that it actually contains minute deep potholes. These are a key characteristic of beach found glass. You will also catch petite “C”s etched into the glass as well as micro fissures that appear as the glass is toss against rocks and sand.
Another expansive indicator of found beach glass jewelry is the effect. Dealers will charge a lot more for found glass than for reproduction glass.
Reproduction Sea Glass
Typically created in a rock tumbler, these pieces of glass appear silky unruffled. From afar, they easily resemble beach glass. However, these pieces will be devoid of the deep potholes, fissures, and “C” markings. fair as delicate as found glass, reproduction glass allows an artist more flexibility in build.
The most favorite colors of found beach glass are Kelly green, brown, and white. Due to the rarity among other colors, an artist’s color palette may be small when using found beach glass. Unlike beach found glass, reproduction sea glass gives an artist the freedom to decide the colors wanted in their designs.
Another relieve in using reproduction glass is that artists have the ability to beget in duplicate. This allows them to obtain earring sets that are almost identical in shape.
As I mentioned before, a respectable indicator of how the glass was created is cost. Costing a piece of the impress of beach found sea glass; reproduction sea glass is truly a very economical and shapely medium to produce timeless jewelry with.
Become an eco-fashion leader, and the envy of your friends, by purchasing and wearing jewelry created from recycled beach glass. Cleaning up the environment in a fashionably green arrangement!