Handmade Designer Necklace -Silver,Vintage Murano Glass, Swarovski crystal

Another necklace in the Pipedream collection.  A slender necklace of silver pipes separated by clear Swarovski crystal.  The center geometric drop is of vintage Murano glass, red and frosted glass, and black Swarovski crystals. This piece is light to wear and can be worn as a choker or a pendent. $65.00.

New Handmade Designer Necklaces; Lightweight , Colorful and Sexy !.

Have fun wearing "Pipe Dream" necklaces.They are made of sterling silver, vintage Murano glass, and Swarovski Crystal.   The centerpieces come in triangular, circular, and. teardrop shapes.

All colored beads are from a private collection of Murano glass beads circa 1950-1970. Textures of these beads are satin, granular, matte, transparent glass and opaque glass.

Colors are fabulous . Coral and white pearl, bright yellow and white polka dot, fuchsia and peach, turquoise and wedgewood blue, olive chartreuse and red, and white, black and red.  They come in small and large sizes and can be made to order.

Each necklace comes with earrings. Chartreuse earrings enhance the necklace shown above.

They're eye candy!  Price range is $65.00-$125.00 for necklaces $35.00 for earrings - a bargain! Custom size and colors can be ordered for an additional $25.00.

If you want more information, or are interested in purchasing  necklaces or earrings, please send your contact information to me in the" Comment" space below and I will get back to you. Free Shipping. Full refund if returned in 10 days.

Vintage Murano Glass Beads. Rare Red Holiday necklace

In December I like to make a red necklace.  It is my own private holiday celebration.  If i'm lucky I will be invited to a party and can wear my scooped neck black velvet with my new red necklace. If i'm even luckier, I will sell my new necklace and the person who bought it will continue the red necklace holiday celebration.

I have a relative whose Mother lived  in Venice, Italy .  She designed and sold necklaces made from Murano glass beads from 1950-1970.  It must have been a big industry because when she died, she left a room full of beads of many colors and different styles.  I am a bead expert and to this day I have not seen beads like the ones in the necklace above.  These are Murano glass with an applied satin finish in the most vibrant cherry red. Good red beads are hard to come by , but this collection has many.  Another red necklace made from vintage Murano glass oval matte finish beads can be seen on my first blog, "Welcome To My blog--All About Necklaces".

The necklace above is made from satin finish vintage Murano glass beads, sterling silver, black Swarovski crystal. It has an extender chain and a sterling oval  lobster claw type of clasp and sells for $275.00.  If purchased this through this blog, it is on sale for $225 with free shipping in the USA . To  contact me, write your request through Post a Comment below and leave your e mail address.

PEACE TO ALL!!  HAPPY 2010!

Combining Color

In Lisa Kosan's interview with Iris Apful, fashion doyenne, she said "In the right tonality, I never met a color I didn't like." The fuscia and rust in the necklace above are examples of colors that could clash, but do not when they are in the same tones.

When designing a room, a rule of thumb is to use a lot of neutral, a lesser amount of a second color, and a small amount of an accent color. This necklace uses the same principles. The major colors are the black and white batik bone from Kenya which is neutral, the next amount of color is orange in various tones. There is the soft apricot shade of the large recycled glass pieces from Ghana, the brown ( a dark orange) of the bauxite that surrounds the centerpiece, and the rust in the vintage Murano glass beads. The accent and smallest amount is the fuscia vintage Murano glass beads. This works as well in necklaces as it does in rooms.

Check out this necklaces and others at Adner-Bergart.com

Antique African and Vintage Murano glass beads

This handmade designer necklace from Adner-Bergart.com is presently in the Color Obsession Gallery in Mashpee, MA. At an opening party, I met an acquaintance who is "intuitive". Although there were four of our necklaces displayed, she went right to this necklace, lifted it up, and said she just had to touch the yellow beads. She said they were old, there was a story, but she did not know what it was.

The yellow opaque glass with turquoise patterns on them are about 100 yrs old. They are called Bodum and were made for African kings . Collectors covet Bodum beads and the best ones still have colored patterns on them.

This was the first necklace that Andrea and I made. We made a long one and a short one and they both sold immediately. We have two more left to sell. What I love about this necklace is how the turquoise glass beads glow. It has history, a great color combination, and rare beads.

The Bodum beads are combined with the rust satin vintage Murano glass beads, Czech blown turquoise glass circa 1920 and new recycled glass beads from Ghana.

"Red to the Rescue"

The Boston Globe Fall Fashion magazine of 8/23/09 has a standout article about "Red Hot and New". It says that red is the"in"color this year, and has an elegant 6 page photographic spread of models dressed in various shades of black , grey and red. The photographer is Sadie Dayton and the styling is by Marci Duarte/team.

The only thing missing from this wonderful display are necklaces! If they only knew about Adner-Bergart's Niger necklace illustrated above or about the antique Murano opaque red glass and Swarovski black crystal necklace illustrated in Blog #1 they would have achieved perfection.

The "Niger" necklace illustrated above is made from beads made from ceramic from Niger, sterling silver , red glass from Ghana and antique and vintage Murano glass. More information about it can be found at adner-bergart.com.

Antique African Trade Bead necklace

This handmade designer necklace is made from the antique millifiore Murano glass beads used for trade in Africa discussed in blog#2. It is combined with sterling silver, vintage Murano glass, kunzinite, and carnelian beads. It is an informal necklace that adds color to whatever one wears. More about is is found on necklacesbyadner.com.

Finding African trade beads

About 40 years ago I was in Tangiers for a day or so. At that time, in the souk, there were barrels of old millifiore murano glass beads now known as African trade beads. I had no idea what to do with them, but I liked the way they looked. You could buy a huge scoop of beads from a big barrel and it cost a few dollars. Oh how I wish I had I purchased several scoops of beads. Now they are worth a lot of money.

I knew a psychologist who said you only regret the things you don't buy.

Many years later they served their purpose. They started my necklace passion. I made my first necklace combining those beads with semi precious stones from an old necklace my Aunt had given me, and now Andrea Bergart and I are making handmade designer necklaces from her old African beads, and my collection of old Murano glass beads.

They can be seen on our website adner-bergart.com.

Welcome to My Blog -- All About Necklaces

Necklaces! Lace around the neck. A bit of adornment that enhances the wearer. It is amazing to me that there is such a variety of design when all there us to work with is a long or short oval that encircles the neck.

This blog is not about precious stones such as diamonds, rubies and emeralds. It is about handmade designer necklaces made from less expensive materials such as antique African glass, vintage Murano glass, semi-precious stones, pearls, silver and brass.

It will cover necklaces from the Wiener Werkstatte period, the greats of Mexican sterling silver, Miriam Haskell vintage necklaces, and more.

The necklace above is made by Barbara Adner from antique Murano glass circa 1910 and Swarovski crystal. It can be seen at necklacesbyadner.com