Handmade glass beads and silver dangle earrings (E0196)

These simple dangle earrings are made from handmade silver beads and glass-paste beads, placed on sterling silver stem that hangs from sterling silver long stem hook.

The glass-paste beads are made with Millefiori technique (Italian for “thousand flowers”), an ancient glasswork technique which produces distinctive decorative patterns on glassware and can be traced back to Ancient Roman, Phoenician and Alexandrian times. It is made with handmade glass canes, each containing an individual pattern of various design and color, from star to round to flower shape (hence the name).