A Little Bit About Sea Glass

For eons man has used the oceans to discard trash throwing away glass bottles of all sorts, beer, wine, soda, medicine along wirh ships port lights. lenses. dishware and plate glass. It is this discarded material which in time is returned to us as sea glass.

The sea glass impacts on the oceans shores breaking into shards which in turn through the years are eroded by the action of the waves churning the glass among the sand and rocks polishing and shaping these shards into unique hues, shapes and sizes.

The sea glass is collected from New England Shores primarily on Aquidneck Island in Rhode Island. The collected glass is then cleaned, sanitized and graded by size, thickness and color. It is interesting to note that less then ten percent of the collected glass is usable and no two pieces are the same all having different shapes. It may be observed that in a set of earrings the sea glass used though similar are different and that none of the offered pieces are the same each being unique in its own way.

Amongst the sea glass harvested there are finds of highly finished and polished pieces that are quite valuable and rare but for the most part the sea glass that we offer is of a more bountifull supply and relatively inexpensive as compared to other sources of sea glass jewelry.

You must be mindfull that when purchasing any of our offering though we try to reproduce pieces as exact as possible there will be some difference. Because each piece is hand crafted and the sea glass is unique each piece is truly one of a kind.