Showing posts with label jewellery design by dml. Show all posts
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Sunday, 19 August 2012

Skull



1st in cookson gold design competition! I don't just do sea glass!
if I could do back flips I would, totally blew me away.

front and back of the sea glass heart necklace


Inspiration for the blood red Vintage sea glass, is a Heart! I took the photogragh on a sunny day to capture the light shining through, when worn it is very dark red, the magic is when you hold it up to the light and your heart skips a beat just to see the beauty inside. Takes my breath away with every single piece of Seaham sea glass I find.



What is Vintage sea glass?

Seaham Sea Glass


I love Seaham beach in the North East of England, this is where the six bottle houses formed the largest glass production facility in Europe and exported across the world. Prior to the bottle works there  was a small decorative glass works in the yard of the Canterbury, our Sea glass is around 150 years old, it’s an antique & are rarer than diamonds with each sea glass being unique and one of a kind  your surely will fall in love with them just like I did. The North Sea has tumbled them smooth and given us back these astonishing gems.

The bottle works factory opened in the year of 1853 and John Candlish bought the bottle works in 1855 and closed in 1921. They produced all sorts of glass bottles, expensive poison bottles, beer bottles, and their small decorative glass works produced Victorian vases, wine glasses and decorative glass, and I have been told magnificent glass chandeliers. At the end of the each day they would take their waste out to sea and throw it overboard into the North Sea and it’s been rolling & tumbling in the sea for years and making them smooth. The sea has given us these magical one off pieces of incredible sea glass which we find daily along our beaches. Seaham sea glass is very collectible, and is known throughout the world, it’s because of the history behind these treasures that make them so collectible. The price will only increase in value. They will be heirlooms one day, to pass on to your generations.