5 0 4.5mm Turquoise White Heart Czech Seed Bead

5 0 4.5mm Turquoise White Heart Czech Seed Bead. Used predominately for decorative surface treatments on clothing and textiles in addition to fashion jewellery, such as friendship bracelets. They are also a great size for kids jewellery making (over 5 years). Bead Vault offers the largest range of Czech glass seed beads online in Australasia, with over 80 colours available in our 5/0 seed bead range. 

White Hearts have an inner core of white glass. i.e., Inside hole lined with white. Original trade beads are sought after beads today because of the intensity of their colour. The style of White Heart beads was invented around the year 1480, whereby red glass was coloured using actual gold. Naturally, because of its value, the gold had to be used sparingly by the bead makers. As such, they instead opted to use cheap colour filler for the core of the bead with the red only forming the outer layer.

DETAILS:

• White Heart - turquoise

• Size 5/0 Czech glass seed beads
  Each small bead measures about 4.5mm & a hole size of 1mm.

• 20grm packet (approx x 175 pieces) 100grms (x5 packets, approx x 975) 1/2kg (x25 packets, approx x 4875)

TIP: use stainless steel cable known as Tigertail for jewellery making and Nymo thread for surface embellishments size D

Made by the established glass company Preciosa (prior to that Ornela a state-run factory by Jablonex) in the mountains north of Prague. Seed beads are also known as rocailles (French / “little stones”) and are made of the highest quality glass by the drawn glass method. Literally the glass is drawn out to become a long hollow tube and then cut into small pieces. Seed beads are affordable, durable to work with and having a multitude of colours and finishes and sizes available give the crafts person broad scope in creativity. Sizing is based on the size rod used for the manufacture of glass beads. The smaller the number, the larger the bead.

Preciosa^® TRADITIONAL CZECH BEADS^TM is the number one producer of rocaille seed beads in the world.