No Swimming Allowed

Sale Price: $45.00    Retail Price: $80.00
 
Eyes will light up when you wear this 16-inch, choker style neck piece of Venetian and Czech crackled glass, centered by a marbled 2-inch square Baby Blue  Agate stone, surrounded by two 20MM Swarovski round crystals with fancy filigree bead caps. Finished with a silver toggle clasp, encrusted with two blue crystals.
 
During the 1st century BC, when Roman Empire conquered Egypt, Roman masters learned the glass-making craft. They introduced hotter and larger ovens enabling the production of more fluid glass mixture. Then Romans started using glass blowing pipes, which revolutionized the glass-making process and made it possible to produce large quantities of glass articles relatively cheaply.
and crafts in Venice. Glass-making in Venice The decline of the glass bead-making in Europe continued until the 12th century when the growing power of the Venetian Republic and its commercial success gave rise to the revival of various forms of arts got established on the industrial scale supported by the formation of the glass-makers guild with many privileges and honors bestowed upon its members, and aided by continuous innovation in search for lost Roman secrets. The first glass beads produced in the Venetian Republic were most likely used for rosaries.   , and an ancient document was found specifying that a large quantity of them was exported from Venice in 1338. These early Venetian beads were most likely produced by dripping hot glass onto a wooden or iron rod covered with special non-stick paste.