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*ABOUT INDONESIA’S HERITAGE, TREASURES AND LEGACY pages :
1.The Royal Replica Adornment
2.Fossils, Natural Earth Sources, Gemstones, (Semi)Precious Stones and the Diggers.
3.Akik, Keris, Su-Seiki, Mpu, Shaman
4.Batik, Sarung,Kebaya (the past,the now and the future)
*5.The Story of The Indonesian Lampwork Glassbeads
6. The Handembroidery and Needle Work
7.IKAT-The Handloomed-Handwoven Cloth
8.Miscellaneous Handicrafts
9.Sea and Water Treasures ; Pearl, Sea Shell, Mother of Pearl (MoP),Fresh Water Pearl (FWP),Fish, Shrimp. And the Stolen Sea Heritage.
10. The Dayak and The Baduy Tribes (Where the Badak Jawa- Rhino- exist.
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*ABOUT INDONESIA HERITAGE, TREASURES AND LEGACY (5)
(The Story of The Indonesia Lamp Work Glass Beads)
By : Ross T Nugroho
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About : The Story of a Village ; The Look of the Glassbead; The Patience
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Lampwork Glass Bead, Swarovski, Lariat Necklace /RossAtelier
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Lampwork Glassbeads is also a most favorite beads in jewelry making. These Indonesia handcrafted fire glass beads are made by the tremendous talented crafters in Indonesia. They are selftaught artists. Borned artists. And they are villagers.
They made these amazing glassbeads right on the flaming fire, one by one with hands, mixed with their sweat and maybe with their tears.
Give them samples, and voila…!.They could make even better than the samples. (That’s a gifted talent to the Indonesian crafters in all handicraft fields).
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Lampwork glassbeads hand been found and made in Indonesia since ages ago. Before was known as ‘trade beads’.
Actually, the Indonesia lamp work glass bead had been ‘go international’ since long time ago.
But it never appeared as “made in Indonesia” beads.
I ever found on internet, on American jewelry designer ‘s website, using lampwork glassbeads mention as “Indonesia Trade Beads”, “Indonesia Glassbead” or “Recycled Glassbead”.(Thanks for mentioned it).
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*The Story Of A Village
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Lampwork glass bead in antique finishing,Lariat necklace /RossAtelier
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Some decades ago, there was small village in Jombang, East Java. Like other small villages, all the people are relatives as well as with the chief of the village.
Most of them are small farmers where in the same time (or after the harvest time of the rice field ) they work in a glass factory in this village.
One day, the glass factory closed of bankruptcy. Suddenly all the people in the village lost their income.
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During this bad condition, the chief of the village captured this moment. The people who have had already the knowledge of glass blowing and glass making, he transferred them as a glassbead artist and crafter. And guide them with trial and error, to make durable and fine quality lovely lampwork glass beads.
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The Indonesia lampwork glassbeads are made of recycled glass.
In the earlier stages they started from door to door, from garbage to garbage, to collect the the pieces of broken glasses and plates. Even the broken glasses of windows.
But now they have the broken glasses supplier from everywhere. From garbage to human living.
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After the retirement, the former head of the village together with his wife became their glassbeads’ godfather, in the same time as the supervisor and marketer. Later, the ‘godfather’ get finance help from the government bank.
At first, they just duplicate the antique primitive beads from the Kalimantan (Borneo) Dayak tribal . On the way, people give them samples to duplicate. These days, they also made glass beads for Kalimantan and international market.
Now, the former glass labors in East Java become glassbeads artists and crafters, as the boss of their own, the small entrepreneurs.
Under the guidance of the former village leader they also made lot of experiments.
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Don’t ask the crafters about color’s name. Just passed them the color chart. And thadaaa…… they made it amazingly.
Want to make a shiny trendy one, matt look, or antique look beads? Plain, colorful, flowered, stripes, dots, motifs or bumpy? You are Welcome.
So, the todays Indonesia lampwork glassbeads for jewelry, in innovating designs, started from this village. As the pioneer (the former chief of the village) had told me.
Now, their neighboring villages are also handcrafting glass beads. As well as the resin beads which made from the resin tree.
And the lampwork glassbeads of today does not come from East Java only, but some region made such beautiful glassbeads too.
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The lampwork glassbead that you find on my Ross Atelier.com (and ChantikJewels.wordpress.com) come straight from this pioneer, the former head of the village.
These lampwork glass beads like mine, are not selling in common shops. Just in crafts shows, or the buyers come straight to the village.
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Bumpy Lampwork glassbead,necklace/RossAtelier
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The handcrafted fire glassbeads of this villagers had been long time traveled around the world. But not carrying the Indonesia name. The same unlucky story like the Indonesia Gemstone, Semi and Precious Stones, and the other Indonesia handcrafted items and commodities.
Without Indonesia label.
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The designers only passed the style, the color, the shape, and the size they want. The crafters will work with the flames.
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*The Look of The Glass Bead
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Lampwork glassbead, etc ,necklace/RossAtelier
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Indonesia lampwork glassbead at least had two kind of surface appearances effect. The shiny bead like the porcelain look, and the matt look bead with the antique effect.
To get the antique effect look ( matt, vintage or old look) need more extra work than the shiny one.
Same to the foil lined (inserting) glass bead , like the Murano glass beads.
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The price of the glass bead depend on the effort which needed and the way how to make it. The more colors, more complicated motif and colored flower motif, will need more efforts and spend more time to make the (each) beads.
The beautiful and the complicated drawing and the bumpy glass bead influence the effort and the time of making.
The more time had been spent and the more sweat had been dropped would influence the effort and the time of the making.
The Indonesian lampwork, fire glass bead (as in my jewelries) had been made one by one for every piece of bead, on flaming burning fire.
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* The Patience
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You cannot order the special designed of this glassbead in very small quantity only or just for some pieces. Perhaps in small amount of each design, but all together it must in big quantity.
The reason is, to make one bead or tons of bead, they need the same effort of preparation.
But! There’s a bad hereditary habit beyond this beautiful creations.
Don’t be late to collect your order. It is very possible to someone who suddenly visited their workshop will take over your ready order.
And that means, you had to wait for another turn.
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Bumpy lampwork glassbead charm necklace/RossAtelier
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Could you imagine, if those custom order beads, (my own design, my special size and color), suddenly and sneakingly, flew to others, who can buy them just in retail by pieces.
And the crafters always have the same ‘sweet’ reason for you, “When they came, by chance, I am needing money so badly for my family. I am sorry for it. I will make it for you soon”.
They don’t care about the time you have lost, and about your special design and special color.
Like it or not, you have no choice. You have to understand their behavior .
What a tearful and huge patience needed, to face the made – by- order beads gone away.
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Such inconvenienced used to happened in many field of the crafters in villages and small cities. Perhaps that is the reason, lot of foreigner companies put their own representative person to “sit” right beside the crafters lap.
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Obviously, my durable quality fine glass beads and resin jewelry, came straight from the hands, fire and sweat of these villagers (and their broken promises ).
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If you wear my lampwork glass beads jewelry and the other handcrafted items, supposing it was a tearful one of mine.
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Lampwork glassbeads,etc, charm bracelet/RossAtelier
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But all my sadness will turn into happiness if it could make you look distinctive, beautiful and happy.
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