These glass cathedral beads from the Czech Republic are the perfect bead if you love pretty vintage style. The North Bohemian region, with its centuries-old glass-making traditions, has become the cradle of machine cutting & polishing. Cathedral glass beads are named after the stained glass windows of churches and were first manufactured in the 1950’s. They are pressed and cut, in a way which gives them high light refraction and colour saturation.

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The speckled stone finish which “caps” the bead at either end gives it a tribal earthy feel. The finish is known as “picasso”.

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