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Czech Glass Earrings
Bohemia was a part of the former Czechoslovakia, now known as the Czech Republic, and was famous for
its beautiful and colorful glass. The history of Bohemian glass started with the abundant natural resources found in the countryside.
Bohemian glassworkers discovered potash combined with chalk created a clear colorless glass that was more stable than glass
from Italy. It was at that time when the term Bohemian crystal emerged for the first time in history to distinguish its qualities
from the glass coming from other places. As opposed to usual perception this was non-lead. This Czech glass could be cut with
a wheel. In addition, resources such as wood for firing the kilns and for burning down to ashes were used to create potash.
There were also copious amounts of limestone and silica. Bohemia turned out expert craftsmen who expertly worked with crystal.
Bohemian crystal became famous for its excellent cut and engraving. They became skilled teachers of glassmaking in neighboring
and distant countries. By the middle of the 19th century, a technical glass making school system was created that encouraged
traditional and innovative techniques as well as technical preparation. In the second half of the 19th century, Bohemia looked
to the export trade and mass-produced colored glass for shipment all over the world. Pairs of vases were produced either in
a single color of opaque glass or in two-color cased glass. These were decorated in thickly enameled flower subjects that
were painted with great speed. Others were decorated with colored lithographic prints copying famous paintings. These glass
objects were made in huge quantities in large factories and were available by mail order throughout Europe and America. They
were not fine art but provided inexpensive decorative objects to brighten up ordinary homes. Glass artisanship remained at
a high level even under the Communists because it was considered ideologically innocuous. However, although craftsmen retained
their talent, not all the glassmakers still possess a sense of how to make designs new and exciting, and these are still very
successful exporting to markets abroad, while others are passing out of general knowledge In the modern 21st century.
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Beautiful pink square beads accentuated by red discs on sterling silver headpins and earring hooks.
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Awesome pink stars on handmade sterling silver findings.
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Lots of purple in these earrings with striped discs and faceted crystal beads on handmade sterling silver findings.
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Three shades of pink make these Czech glass earrings very attractive, made with sterling silver findings.
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Pretty pair of earrings with red and purple faceted beads. Made with my special handmade sterling silver earwires.
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These have very cool flower shaped beads at the bottoms and faceted pink and purple beads on top. Of course they're made
with my handmade sterling silver findings.
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Awesome red teardrops with purple seed bead accents, and sterling silver findings. Simple and beautiful!
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If you like pink, you'll love these earrings with glass disc beads that sort of look like UFOs as a centerpiece, and
my own handmade sterling silver earwires.
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I really like these red discs with pink accent beads, and think they are one of the more attractive pairs of earrings
on the page. Made with sterling silver findings.
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Really nice pink and red earrings with sterling silver handmade findings.
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Way cool purple stars with seed beads accents and handmade sterling silver earwires.
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This blue beads have some kind of sparkly substance, like foil, inside them that doesn't come out well in the photo.
They do look really cool in real though with the golden accent beads and sterling silver findings.
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Exquisite light purple lead crystal beads from the Czech Republic, accentuated by white quartz gemstones and placed on
my hand-made sterling silver earring findings.
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Elegant faceted lead crystal beads imported from the Czech Republic and tastfully accentuated by a selection of glass
seed beads mounted on sterling silver earwires.
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