[Nfb-krafters-korner] What is Sea Glass?

[Diane]

Many of the sea glass pieces also some from the glass fish net balls the Japanese once used.
Diane

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> On Oct 6, 2017, at 8:10 AM, Dixie via Nfb-krafters-korner <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> What is Sea Glass?
> 
> Sea Glass are pieces of glass that have been sanded by the rocks and sand.
> 
> So, an item of glass breaks, whether it is a bottle that went overboard,
> something that was dumped,  or from a ship wreck, the pieces of glass roll
> around on the ocean bottom from the motion of the waves.  This sands down
> the sharp edges and the surface of the glass.
> 
> It then has a very grainy feel to it instead of the smooth glass feel.
> 
> Good sea glass is completely sanded, no shiny areas to the glass.
> 
> There are several colors, the most common are white, green and brown glass,
> as those are the most common colors of bottles and glasses.  The clear glass
> makes the white sea glass.
> Brown bottles would be from beer bottles and things like that, the green
> would be from wine bottles and bottles like that.  The clear, soda bottles
> and drinking glasses.
> 
> Less common would be lavender, pink, and yellow glasses.  I have a necklace
> with lavender glass, or otherwise known as amethyst glass.  This just has a
> slight purple hue to the white glass.
> 
> Even more rare is the blue glass, from cobalt blue bottles and milk of
> magnesia bottles.
> 
> And really rare is red glass.  That would be from red glass items like
> perfume bottles and automobile tail lights.
> 
> We used to walk along the tide line and collect the pieces of glass that
> washed up.
> 
> My grandmother would offer a finder's fee if we would find blue or red
> glass.
> 
> She made a couple of lamps from the sea glass. She filled a bottle full of
> the glass, she layered the glass until the bottle was full and then she had
> the light fixture installed on the top of the bottle to make a lamp.
> 
> It would take a few years of collecting to fill each lamp.
> 
> A good bit of information can be read at the following link about sea and
> beach glass:
> 
> http://glassbeachjewelry.com/history.htm
> 
> Dixie
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