Vintage Art Deco Venetian wedding cake glass bead and gold tone charm bracelet, white, pink and gold, floral rose design, beautiful

Absolutely stunning white, pink and gold Venetian wedding cake glass bead charm bracelet. Beautiful and unusual shaped glass handcrafted beads with 'wedding cake' style embellishments, attached to gold tone chunky chain.

The bracelet has a length of up to a generous 10 inches, but can be worn shorter by fastening the spring ring clasp in different positions. The bracelet could be worn as a necklace, with the simple use of a plain chain, also with a spring ring clasp or similar. This is a trick that is not used enough with our favourite bracelets - turning a day time staple into a night time accessory! Please let me know if you would like me to try and source a chain, and the length required.

The bracelet is in very good vintage condition. Wedding cake beads known as Fiorato (decorated with glass overlays featuring roses, swirls and dots) and Venetian foil beads (with fusion of colour, gold and silver foil) are two of the kinds of beads made using the lamp-work method.

The lamp-work method is the most time-consuming method of glass bead-making, as each bead must be formed individually. Using a torch for heat, Murano glass rods and tubes are heated to a molten state and wrapped around a metal rod until the desired shape is achieved. Several layers of different coloured glass, as well as gold and silver leaf, are used to produce the desired effect. After the bead is slowly cooled, it is removed from the rod, resulting in a hole for eventual stringing as jewellery.