Mimi Venezia Rialto Bracelet B110

We immediately fell in love with this magnificent collection of Rialto bracelets. Each piece has so much detail and colour. The colour variation is breathtaking and the quality outstanding. You will feel very special wearing any piece from the Mimi Venezia collection.

Kookychoo is presenting Mimi Venezia's Summer jewellery range: stunning Venetian-style glass jewellery with new season releases including flowered (San Marco Range), modern (Rialto Range) and funky heart shaped beads (Gondola Range).

All beads are handmade in the Venetian Lampwork tradition. Exclusive pieces from the exotic and detailed to the bright and chunky.

What are Lampwork Beads?
Unlike seed beads and pressed glass beads, which are made by machines, all lampwork beads are handmade by artists, one at a time. Due to the nature of their creation, lampwork beads posses a quality that only handmade things have: the mark of the hand. Their beauty and uniqueness makes them a frequent choice for use as the focal point of a piece of jewellery or simply as an additional accent.

How Lampwork Glass Beads are Produced:
The artist works with a gas burner (called the lamp), which produces a narrow, steady and powerful flame. The artist, holding a glass rod in one hand, melts the tip of the rod in the flame into a honey-like state, while holding a special metal wire in the other hand and winding the melted glass on the wire by constantly turning it. Finally, the artist shapes the bead, either free-hand using metal tools or by turning the bead in a metal mold. Different techniques are used to decorate the beads. For example, the artist pulls a fine glass fiber from the melting glass. Then the fiber is used to "paint" a pattern on the bead, melting it firmly into the bead surface.