A Heritage of Inspiration: Creating Jewelry with Czech Glass Beads

Hello Everyone!

For this blog, I wanted to focus on the beautiful Czech Glass Beads that can be found at Bead Bee. The reason I'm so interested in these Czech beads is because they're linked with my heritage, and I wanted to learn little more about the history of Czech glass beads.

In essence, Czech Glass Beads came from the ideas and demands of people all over the world. In the mid 1800s, Czech "sample men", as they called them, traveled the world trying to find out what types of beads people wanted. They brought back  notes and sketches to their home factories where the beads were produced. After a while, technological advances made it possible for Bohemia to mass produce pressed-glass beads. By the 1920s Czechs became the main bead exporters of the world.

My example features a memory wire bracelet using turquoise Czech flower glass beads, jet Czech petal beads and tortoise Czech fire polished glass beads. I also used antique copper spacers. I picked these colors because I don't see these colors used together on jewelry very often. You could wear a bracelet like this dressed down with a white t-shirt, jeans, and flip flops, or dressed up with that "little black dress" you save for special occasions. Please leave questions and comments to let me know what you think!

Brianna

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