10 Oriental White Heart Cloisonne Flower Beads - unusual

Product Code: ga199a

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These unusual beads are ideal for a pendant or bracelet. Each measures 16 x 14 x 8mm.

The Cloisonne  beads are very beautiful for every jewellery design.

Cloisonné is decorative enamel work in which metal filaments are fused to the surface outlining a design filled in with enamel paste. Cloisonné enamel ware dates back over 500 years in China. Being especially popular during part of the Ming Dynasty (mid 15th-centure). Owing to its brilliant colours and designs, cloisonné has been highly appraised around the world. Hand crafted by an elaborate and complicated process of hammering, soldering, enamel-filling, enamel firing, polishing and gilding.

Cloisonné beads are no different in this process, and their energies are similar to those of flaked stone.