Glass Bead Crystal Austria

This product group contains all the crystal cut glass beads from Korutarvike.com that are of the high quality Imitation Austrian Crystal brand. Imitation Austrian Crystal is a high quality Austrian Swarowski imitation without the lead found in Swarowski. A more environmentally friendly alternative to Swarowski's lead glass is nowadays crystal glass, which uses barium oxide, zinc oxide or potassium oxide instead of lead oxide. This process gives the glass a very high refractive index instead of lead, so that when light hits the surface of a moving bead, it creates a powerful sparkle.

In these crystal-cut through-dyed beads, a 1mm x 1mm, or very small hexagonal sharp-edged facet cut circulates around the surface of the bead, giving the bead its super-bright sparkle and shine. At Korutarvike.com we refer to this bead as the Crystal Chopped Austrian.