The origin of Venetian glass bead can be traced to Venice, where the beadmakers with their skill and eye for design make their Glass Beads which are popular throughout the world. Venetian artisans have been influencing glass bead makers from around the world for several centuries, creating the distinct Venetian glass style. The popular Venetian glass gifts and beautiful handmade venetian glass jewelry are generally designed with Venetian glass beads

Venetian Glass Bead Making Process

Venetian beads are basically lampwork glass beads which are lamp worked from glass. Venetian glass beads manufacturers make these beads from molten glass over an open flame. The process of making Venetian glass beads is a centuries old tradition of hand-crafting beads. It is the most time consuming bead making process as each bead is made individually. With the help of a torch, glass cane is heated to a molten state and wrapped around a metal rod until the desired bead shape is formed. Inspite of time consuming process, they are made in bulk to meet the wholesale Venetian glass beads requirement world over.

Popular Venetian Glass Beads

The various forms in which Venetian glass beads are found include Millefiori glass beads, also known as thousand flowers, lace beads or mosaic. Other popular Venetian beads include Sommerso and Fiorato glass beads. Sommerso means submerged and is a small fleck of color, suspended inside transparent glass bead. Fiorato glass beads are decorated with flowers. However, these beads can also be foiled with gold to make gold foil glass beads, white gold and silver to make silver foil glass beads. They may be also be finished in spirals, or straight striping, and may be in balls, or teardrop shape.