30 Glas rings
Material: Glass
Size: Ø 5,5 - 7 cm
Age: ~ 1930
Origin: Gablonz, Czech
Condition:
Very good condition.
Description:
A decorative collection of vintage glass rings from Gablonz, dating to the 1930s. All rings feature fine glass threads embedded in spiral patterns within the coloured glass. Various shades, including orange, green, purple, blue and red, give this collection its distinctive charm. These glass rings were used in the production of Gablonz Christmas decorations, forming components of elaborate ornaments. They are a lovely example of traditional Gablonz glassmaking and interesting original materials for collectors, as well as for completing and restoring historic Christmas ornaments. Guaranteed old – not reproductions.
History of the production of Gablonz glass bead jewelry
The production of Gablonz glass bead jewelry has a long tradition. The historiography began around 1550 in Gablonz / Sudetenland (today's Czech Republic) and developed in connection with the jewelry and glass industry. At that time, the first glassworks were built and from these, glass grinding shops. In the countless Gablonz family businesses, the beads were blown up from glass tubes in front of an oil lamp with bellows reinforcement, or later with a type of Bunsen burner. This is how the "freehand beads" were blown up by hand without any shaping aids. Later, the glass tubes were blown up into "shaped beads", again in front of the "lamp", using a bead forming machine developed in this region. Father and grandfather were usually responsible for blowing up the beads. Mother and grandmother's busy hands then strung this bead material on wire in certain formations.
