Site Map Venetian Bead Shop - Direct Importer of fine quality Venetian Beads and Murano Glass Beads, Volume Pricing, Worldwide Shipping

Layout of our Venetian Bead Shop website at a glance, Choose the category of Venetian Beads that you want and go directly there. Please note that in regards to sizes, they are approximate as handmade Venetian beads are never exactly the same size. The colors also vary by lot much like carpet lots vary.

This is a quick glance of the categories and types of beads found in our Venetian Bead Shop. Our Venetian beads are handmade in the centuries old tradition known as lampwork or a lume, the Italian word for working with the torch. Venice began as the city of glass but with the fires and political events all glass furnaces were moved to Murano in late thirteenth century. However as part of the movement which precluded any glass making in Venice, it did approve the working with the lume (flame) in Venice which accommodated the then thriving home based business of making beads. Today the tradition continues with the canes for these Murano glass beads being produced in Murano and many of our bead makers living and working in Venice. Please enjoy our Venetian beads and Murano glass beads.

Our mouth blown beads, particularly the bicolors, the filigrana and two color swirls are the only beads actually produced in the Murano glass furnaces. They are produced by working in the same manner as glassblowers who make filigrana Murano glass vases and Venetian wine glasses. It is a different type of work than working over a torch. We also have a line of Murano blown beads which are produced by torch, our blown Murano Glass hearts.