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Our Favorite Murano Glass and Venetian Glass Links, and Interesting Links to Fun Things in Venice and Italy

Please visit our some of our favorite site. They provide useful information that might be interesting to you. If you want to exchange links with us, please don't hesitate to drop us a line.

1	Glass Art Organizations

Art Glass Association Professional Glass Artists
Art Glass Association is an organization for Glass Artists, Glass Artists Retailers, Glass Artists Studios, Manufacturers. Free Art Glass Patterns for Art Glass Hobbyst and Art Glass Association offers free art glass patterns

Glass Art Society
Glass Art Society Worldwide society of glass workers and artists with yearly conferences to share techniques and knowledge.

International Socity of Glass Bead Makers
Beadmakers from around the world, Annual Gathering with wonderful classes, new tools and innovations. Keep pace with the changes in our exciting world.

2	Glass Blowing, Bead Making Equipment Tools

Arrow Springs
One of the largest selections of flameworking and hot glass supplies for glass artists. Including: glass, hand tools, ovens and temperature controllers, supplies, books, videos and more.

3	Glass Discussion & Resources

ARTFOCUS COMMUNICATIONS
website of ARTFOCUS COMMUNICATIONS, publisher former ARTFOCUS MAGAZINE founded l992, archives back issues on line,now published as CITYART MAGAZINE since May 2004 published as CITYART MAGAZINE, see archives & articles ARTFOCUS ONLINE

GLASS LINE Newsletter... GlassBlowing
The worlds only publication entirely devoted to GlassBlowing - LampWorking - FlameWorked - HOT GLASS Art & Artists...... is now on line! Check it out!

Glass Museum
Glass Museum On Line, photographs and explanation of all kinds of glass, links to many useful glass sites, a Glass Collectors Club, Glass Club Bulletin Board, Bookshelf, and regular updates

Home Page of THE NATIONAL AMERICAN GLASS CLUB, Ltd. - NAGC
Home Page of The National American Glass Club, Ltd.

Murano Glass Yahoo! Groups
Murano Glass A place to discuss your collection, find someone to repair broken glass, find out about Murano glass artist and maestro. Find out how much your antique glass is worth. Find out what is happening today in Murano.

Whitehouse Books, Corning: books about glass, ceramics, decorative arts
Specializing in books about glass, ceramics and decorative arts

4	Glass Museums

Murano Magic
A history of Murano glass tracing the story since 452 AD when the people of Venice fled the lagoons to escape Atilla Hun's invasion.

Corning Museum of Glass
Engage, Educate, and Inspire Visitors and The Community Through The Art, History And Science Of Glass.

Murano Glass Museum - Museo del Vetro
Murano Glass Museum housed in the l'antico Palazzo del Vescovo di Torcello on Murano with a treasure of Venetian glass through the ages.

Museum of Glass
Tacoma Washington Museum of Contemporary Glass, Opened July 2002. Classes and exhibits.

5	Shopping Malls - Indexes & Search

Antique and Estate Jewelry
Fine antique and estate jewelry from the past 200 years.

Antique Jewelry Directory
Antique jewelry periods, styles and shopping links.

Buyer's Index
The Search Engine for Savvy Shoppers. Search 20,000 Web shopping sites and mail order catalogs with over 300 million product offerings for your home or business.

CollectingChannel.com - The Web's best collecting resource
Find your passion with CollectingChannel.com. The leader in collecting news, information, & services. Collect info on Antiques, Collectibles, Glass, Pottery, Sports, Stamps, Coins, Toys, and more!

Diamonds
Loose diamonds at the best prices on the web.

Engagement Rings
A better way to buy diamonds and engagement rings at the best prices on the web.

Espresso machines, coffee makers & grinders
800-Espresso offers espresso, coffee, espreesso machines, coffee makers, coffee grinders

Jewelry Discount
Jewelry discounted to half price and diamonds discounted to the best prices on the web.

Jewelry Link Exchange
Exchanging link among jeweler professional to get link popularity for search engine.

Jewelry-Jewellery
The most popular jewellery sold by over 50,000 jewelers in America.

6	Venetian Glass Beads - Murano Glass Mouth Blown - Authentic Murano Glass There is no Subsitute

GlobalGiftMall
Venetian Glass, Venetian, Italian glass, Italian, Murano, Italy, Millefiori, Beads, Blown glass, necklaces, necklace, figurine, figurines, earrings, aquariums, pelicans, clowns, paperweights, watches

MuranoGlassBeads
Wholesale Authentic Murano Glass Beads for Bead Stores and Volume Manufacturers (Wholesale Only). Extensive line of high quality Murano Glass Beads, Gold Fold, White Gold Foil, Millefiori, Specialty Beads, Fancy Beads for the trade. Apply for account.

VenetianBeadShop.jp
http://www.venetianbeadshop.com

OTHER BEADS & CRAFT SUPPLIES:

Craft Site Directory - your guide to arts and crafts on the internet
Search or browse the Craft Site Directory to locate finished crafts, patterns, craft supplies and equipment, craft projects and much more. Easy to navigate!

Da Bead Babe
beads, wholesale beads, lampworked beads, bone beads, seed beads, fiber optic beads, crow beads, glass beads, horn beads, metal beads, czech beads, resin beads, bead supplies, faceted beads.

Bead Links and listings of bead stores and shops sponsered by The Down The Street Bead Shows
bead links to beads

Gold Beads
Find what you need right here at gold-beads.com, your portal to gold beads websites

7	Venetian Glass Collectibles & Antiques

Art-Web Community
A.D. LINES - EUROGROUP is a wholesale distributor and publisher of art prints, posters, and limited edition art work. We represent 10 European publishers including National and Tate Galleries, Manchester City Gallery, Sjatin, and Avant Art. Over 1,000 images from our catalogs are available for both retail and wholesale purchase.

Collectics Antiques and Collectibles Mall, Consignment Antique Shop, Bookstore, Collecting Directory, Reference Information, Arts Magazine, Quiz, & Museum!
Collectics Antiques & Collectibles is an eclectic mix of antique mall, consignment shop, online bookstore & book reviews, reference & education information, arts & museum exhibits magazine, search engine, collecting antiques directory, quiz contest, museum finder locator, and decorative arts museum featuring Art Deco, Art Nouveau, and Arts & Crafts design. Pottery, porcelain, china, ceramics, glass, crystal, kitchenware, vintage jewelry & accessories, bakelite & lucite, silver, metalware, memorabilia, advertising, books, records, sheet music, clothing & linen, toys, sports, pets & animals, poodles, 1950s & 1960s retro, mid-century modern, and gifts & gift certificates.

Great Glass home page
A selection of affordable, fine quality items for collectors of antique & collectable glassware

8	Venice Information & Websites

Italy Farmhouses Vacation rentals and apartments for Rent, Italy Rentals.
Attractive accommodations between Orvieto and Siena,in Tuscany,Umbria and Lazio. Vacation rentals in Italy, Special places to stay. Tourist information guide and travel directory.

Venice Italy: Hotels Apartments Tours Restaurants of Venice Venedig
Venice Italy Guide: Museums, exhibitions, photos of all the churches of Venice, hotels, restaurants, pubs, tours, B&Bs, apartments and accommodation.

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More information about us: Venetian Bead Shop is a direct importer of Venetian Beads and Murano Beads. Your source of wholesale Venetian Beads and wholesale Murano Glass beads. Working directly with the beadmakers of Venice and the island of Murano, often designing our own beads, we feature over 8000 different colors and styles of traditional and modern Venetian glass beads. The beads begin with Effetre Moretti™ glass canes which are produced on the island of Murano. Each bead is handmade one by one by beadmakers sitting behind a torches with a mandrel in one hand and a cane of glass in the other, known as lampwork. We introduced Venetian Dichroic Beads to the US through our efforts with our beadmakers in Murano and revived an ancient technique of furnace glass with our partner in Murano. We continue to bring new and innovative ideas to this age old Murano industry. We have been importing Venetian Beads continuously since 1993, shipping worldwide. We also offer Swarovski® Crystals, Gold Findings, Sterling Silver Findings, Softflex™ Wire, Beadalon Wire and a variety of Beading Tools and Supplies. We offer wholesale beads and the largest Venetian Bead Shop Wholesale Showroom in the US with over 5000 sq ft of beads!

Popular Kinds of Venetian Beads and common terminology:

Millefiori Beads : Known as thousand flowers, lace beads or mosaic, these Murano beads have been popular since those early days. The Venetian bead is made by first gathering a small ball of clear or matching color transparent glass, then rolling the ball over small slices of the millefiori cane or carefully placing them on the ball. The bead maker continues rotating and evenly heating the bead until the millefiori slices are completely formed into the bead.

Sommerso Beads: Sommerso means submerged and is a description of how this bead is made, small flecks of color, often aventurina (aventurina is the Veneziana spelling, while avventurina is the Italian spelling) are suspended inside transparent glass. It is a simple Venetian bead, usually less expensive but very popular.

Fiorato Beads : Decorated with flowers, as fiore means flower in Italian, this word means small flowers. The bead can be made in any technique, gold foil, silver foil, sommerso, however on the outside there will be a small flower which is drawn using molten stringers of colored glass. Often there are also decorations on the exterior of aventurina piping. Venetian Fiorato beads require more skill than sommerso for making.

Gold Foil, White Gold and Silver Foil: Murano Beads made by first making a small ball of the glass and then rolling the molten glass ball across thin sheets of 24kt gold foil, 24kt white gold foil or .925 sterling silver. The bead with this foil exterior is then completed by gently melting on top of the foil transparent colors of Moretti Murano glass. The 24kt gold foil under the colors gives it a rich glow, enhancing the color, while the 24kt white gold foil gives the bead a softer shade of color, refined and warm. Using .925 sterling silver, the true color of the glass is brightened and becomes crisp. The white gold is an alloy with 18kt gold foil and white colored metals, the same as in fine jewelry.

Blown Beads: The blown beads are the only beads made in a real Murano glass furnace or in small laboratories using "glory holes". They are made using a technique called filigrana the glass blower first takes a blowpipe and rolls over canes of colored glass giving the striping in each bead. They may be finished in spirals, or straight striping, and may be balls, or teardrop shape or our very popular pennies which are balls which have been flattened. The Venetian Blown beads may also be made in lampwork technique, or perle a lume (in Italian). In the case where they are made in lampwork, they begin with a larger cane of the Moretti glass which they melt into a soft ball on the end of a small blow pipe. Our blown Venetian Glass Hearts are made in this fashion, while our other Blown Beads are made in the filigrana technique.

Dichroic Beads : Our Venetian Dichroic beads take a long journey to reach you. The glass begins as sheets in the Moretti factory in Murano. These sheets of glass are exported to Los Angeles, California where high tech equipment applies the coatings under vacuum. A final trip back to Murano and our beadmakers incorporate tiny chips of the dichroic into the traditional Venetian beads producing a marvelous mixture of old world style and modern technology. The dichroic beads are individual - no two ever alike and held in the sunlight will appear different as a result of the coatings. They are spectacular and unique. VenetianBeadShop.com introduced these Venetian Dichroic Beads working with their beadmakers in Murano.

Lampwork Beads: The term Lampwork is derived from the Venetian tradition which is known as "a lume" which means at the lamp. Americans tend to think they invented it, however they have borrowed ideas, the very canes and built on centuries of the artist and craftsmen of Venice. Many people do not think of Venetian Beads as Lampwork Beads , however, lampwork simply means that the beads have been worked over a flame. This has the same technique for thousands of years, only the energy source has changed. All beads made in Venice and Murano are lampwork beads. Venetian beads have been associated largely with the production styles which have been sold for the past thirty to forty years. However, in researching the history of beads, you will find that for centuries, the Muranese and Venetians have been making beads with the dots now associated with lampwork. Visit our Lampwork beads section and see some Venetian Lampwork Beads make in the style of the American artists. In fact all of these beads come under the heading of Wound beads, since taking the molten cane in hand, the canes are wrapped around the mandrel.

Furnace Glass: Since most beads are made from the Moretti (and now a new company just outside Venice called VetroFondo) our Furnace Glass Beads are different in that they are made by real glass blowers in real Murano Glass Furnaces. The glass is different from the softer Moretti glass, even though the composition is still soda. The glass used in this furnace is more like pyrex in that the glassblowers can blow these to very thin walls and that each bead is annealed in the oven overnight insuring that all stresses are relieved. This makes for a very strong bead. We use the zanfirico method for many of the beads. All the canes used in these beads are made on the premises of this furnace.

Vicenza: Our Vicenza line uses patches of 24kt gold foil along with .925 sterling silver foil. Vicenza brings to mind the opulent piles of silver and gold exhibited at the Vicenza O'ro shows gleeming and enticing. We use a base of either transparent colors of Murano Glass or opaque to create the background to display the bright bling of our gold and silver..

Luna: Luna beads incorporate a base of one of our transparent colors and then has small pieces of gold and silver and little particles of avventurina. All of this is finally covered in crystal clear Murano glass. This gives you plenty of sparkle and splash along with the bright colors.

KLIMT: Klimt beads are inspired by the Austrian symbolist painter, a member of the art nouveau movement and particularly by his Golden Phase" where many of his paintings utilized gold leaf. Klimt traveled to Venice where the gold mosaics were said to have influenced these works. We use the bright colors and gold leaf or silver leaf in all KLIMT beads.

Sole: Our Sole Beads feature transparent undercolors of Murano glass encasing 24kt gold foil with bits of the 24kt gold foil peeping through the bright colors, like sunshine through the clouds. The 24kt gold foil exposed will wear over time and exposure to lotions & oils. This wearing and coloring is part of the beauty of these beads. They will brighten your day!

PERLAVITA
Perlavita is the trademark name of our line of large hole beads and jewelry. Designed by us in partnership with our Italian family of beadmakers, we use traditional Venetian beads with larger holes with either Vermeil (24kt gold plate over sterling silver or .925 sterling silver). They fit such popular bracelets as Pandora, Chamilia, Love Links, Troll, Tedora and many omega chains with a hole size of a little more than 5mm.

Whatever the style of the bead or the technique used in making it, Venetian beads are popular and valued in jewelry. It's the mystic of that beautiful island, it's strong people and the sense of style we have all come to know as Venetian Beads or Murano Beads.

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