Beader Garden: Crackle Glass Beads

Friday, April 26, 2019

PandaHall Ideal on Making Blue Crackle Bracelets

This set of bracelets is eye-catching with their shinny appearance. It is made by crackle beads and shell pendants, star pendants and many other brass charms. I really love them. Let us learn how to make them!

To make this beautiful bracelet, you should prepare some crackle glass beads and bracelet pendants first. Thejewelry making process is simple and it will cost you no more than one hour. Maybe it is time for you to spend an afternoon to do a jewelry making.

The materials needed in this jewelry making:

Round Transparent Crackle Glass Beads, 10mm

Dyed Faceted Glass Beads, Pale Turquoise, 6x4mm

Iron Round Spacer Beads, 5mm

Brass Rhinestone Spacer Beads, 7x3.3mm

Tibetan Silver Pendants, Shell, Golden, 11.8x14x2.8mm

Brass Charms, Flat Round with Starfish, 13.5x11x1mm

Brass Pendants, Dolphin, 11x6x2mm

Nylon Wire, Clear, 0.3mm

The steps of making this attractive bracelets:

1. Take out 20-25cm wire, 17 crackle blue glass beads, 2 brass rhinestone spacer beads. Thread them on the wire. Tie the wire and cut down the rest.

2. Take out 2 brass pendants with starfish, 1 shell pendant. Add them on the bracelet symmetrically.

3. Make another bracelet. Thread 6 dyed glass beads and 1 gold spacer bead. Then thread 7 dyed glass beads and 1 gold spacer bead. Repeat it for 3 times. And tie the wire tightly, cut down the rest wire if it is too long.

4. The bracelet will have 5 gold spacer beads now. Add 1 brass pendant with dolphin in the center of the bracelet, where is between the 6 dyed glass beads.

Here is the final look of the bracelets. Actually, you will get two bracelets. But the design is to put them on at one time. Of course, you can match them as you like.

Friday, May 22, 2015

Introduction of Crackle Glass Beads

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.

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

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.

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.