Crackle glass bead is one of the best seller beads. It’s not a style or design; in other words, it is a kind of process which brings about crackle affect to the glass. Crackle glass beads have cracked or crackled overall texture which is the key feature of this kind of glass beads. It was first developed in 16th century Venice; some crackle beads have additional painting or adding other elements to the design. This style of glass beads has colorful fluent in surface. They also have wide usages.
Crackle glass are widely used in jewelry making. These beautiful designs are made with clear crackle glass beads and metal chain. Also you can use other jewelry findings to make the designs. It’s simple but trendy. Even you can make it by yourself.
Here we will show you some designs.
How to make the crackles
To make the crackles of the beads, It needs to melt the glass with high temperature, and then submerge it in very cold water., the drastic temperature change causes the glass cracking of the inside layer. The process would let the normal glass cracking to different cracks, which will make each of the glass beads become the original one and into the desired shape.
The really cool thing about the crackles beads is that, the beads would have many cracks on the inside part but the outside is perfectly smooth as the normal glass beads. You do not to worry about that the beads would be sharp to hurt you. The inside of the bead crack deeply, and will have special light, that make it looks charming and attractive.
Wide usages of Crackle Glass
Here we will show you some designs.
A wide variety of items are made from this method. Crackle glass beads not only can make into jewelry, it can also make other popular items include vases, lamps and so on. That’s why it’s still popular now.
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