Jewelry Making Beads

Jewelry making with fire polished beads. We supply firepolish beads for Making Jewelry. The fire polish bead is a staple jewelry making supply and are ideal for jewelry making projects. Czech glass beads are available in a range of colors, shapes, sizes and finishes. Their use is in all types of beadwork and Beaded jewelry making with many appealing qualities for both. Fire Polish Beads from the Czech Republic are the highest quality manufactured faceted glass bead available. Our glass beads for jewelry making are available at our wholesale beads store supplies.

Fire polished rounds are the most popular and are typically made by pressing glass into round moulds. The characteristic faceted faces are then applied to the bead by machine. The bead is then polished by subjecting the glass bead to an intense fire/heat treatment. This gives the bead it’s highly reflective finish, whiles making it scratch resistant as well as slightly smoothing off the facets.

This highly reflective quality available in a range of colors, shapes, sizes and finishes make the fire polished bead ideal for many types of Beaded jewelry making, beadwork and even beaded crafts. Its traditional look is just at home as either vintage style jewelry or beadwork or in up to the minute modern style jewelry, jewelry designs and Jewelry accessories. It’s natural use for modern jewelry designs and vintage style jewellery such as catholic rosary beads have helped make the fire polished bead part of every beader’s bead box.

Traditional vintage style jewelry fire polished beaded necklace

Czech fire polish used for Catholic rosary Beads

Modern Jewelry Style bangle using fire polish jewelry making beads

Faceted firepolish glass beads are quite often used with other types of beads like pressed glass beads, lampwork beads, crystal and swarovski crystal beads. Faceted glass beads offer the beader a much cheaper alternative to swarovski crystal beads and a warmer, softer gentler look. There ability to blend well with many other bead types help to make them incredibly popular.

The most popular firepolish crystal bead finishing and coating technologies include transparent and translucent, opaque, lustre, metallic, vitrail and metal, as well as the popular Aurora Borealis (AB coated). Aurora Borealis meaning northern lights, echo’s the iridescent shimmer or rainbow effect of colors this coating reflects. This coating gives a crystal like reflective charm and can really make an item of beaded jewelry stand out.

The two main producers of fire polished beads are the Czech Republic and India. Glass bead making from India has recently started producing faceted glass beads with old glass dyes purchased from the Czech Republic. Fire polish beads from India are cheaper but unfortunately the fire polish glass used in Indian beads is inferior and doesn’t have the highly reflective brilliance of the Czech fire polished faceted glass beads.

The Czech Republic started producing faceted glass in a region called Jablonec nad Nisou. Glass bead making in the area dates back to the 14th century but it would be another 200 years before the first glass works would be established within what is now known as Jablonec. By the 18th century glass stones were being made for beaded jewelry making and from the early 19th glass bead production in Jablonec soared.

Production continued to the 1930’s when it at first slowed and then halted as a consequence of the second world war. Glass bead production soon restarted after the second world war and has continued to the present day going through many significant post-war changes, including the break up of the USSR. The Bead makers of Jablonec continue export their world renowned Czech faceted firepolished crystal beads to every corner of the globe.

jewelry making : Czech Fire Polish Beads from Jablonec nad Nisou in the Czech Republic. Czech glass making produces the highest quality manufactured Fire Polish bead. Our wholesale beads store supplies glass beads for jewelry making. The Faceted glass bead is used in many types of beadwork and beaded jewelry making. They have a highly reflective brilliance and are ideal for vintage style jewelry as well as modern jewelry designs. This highly reflective quality and highly reflective finish is ideal for many different jewelry designs, Jewelry accessories and beaded jewelry designs. There ability to blend well with pressed glass beads, lampwork beads & swarovski crystal beads make them incredibly popular and the ideal jewelry making supply. Good use of Czech fire polished faceted glass beads can make your beaded jewelry making stand out. Fire polish jewelry making beads  are ideal for every beader’s bead box.