Opaline/Opalite
beads 4.5mm, 8-8.5mm
Opaline, sometimes called Opalite or Rainbow Stone, is a beautiful synthetic stone that originated in Venetian glassmaking in the 16th century.
Created to imitate natural opal, it is highly prized for use in jewelry.
Why create jewelry with Opaline pearls?
Glassmakers and
The name Opaline comes from its resemblance to opal, but it is a human creation, designed by Venetian glassmakers in Murano in the 16th century, following the invention and clear glass and milky white and (opacified and lead and ) by Angelo Barovier in the previous century.
Its creation is part of a tradition marked by alchemy: by purifying materials, using metal oxides and for transmutations, the city's alchemists discovered many of the secrets of crystal while searching for the philosopher's stone or, more prosaically, trying to create gold.
Opaline is made from glass, quartz, or resin, sometimes enriched with metal oxides that produce bluish and reflections reminiscent of opal.
It is an opaque or translucent glass, colored or white, obtained by dispersing particles in the glass matrix and milky by the addition and tin oxides and calcium and .
Opaline is a stone that is highly prized in jewelry, but extreme caution is advised: often mistakenly sold as opal, it produces magnificent shimmering reflections at low cost that mimic the opalescence of highly sought-after noble opals, moonstone, or hecatolite.
You can find our genuine opal beads on our dedicated page.
Benefits in lithotherapy?
While opaline produces a feeling of calm and its reflections is undeniably enchanting, we believe it is excessive to attribute properties and in lithotherapy to an artificial stone. Its beauty is a gift in itself!
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