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Seaglass
Hand-picked seaglass, which is naturally sculpted into smooth elegant forms by the ocean's currents, tides,
and sand is what Peter uses to make memorable pieces of unique jewelry. He blends fine silver with the natural
glass formations to produce one-of-a-kind necklaces, rings, earrings, and bracelets.
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Island Inspired DESIGNS
With Artist Peter Llewellyn l Folk Art l Island Art l Jewelry Studio
Shoreline Design PEI Studio - 40 Water Street -
Georgetown PEI, COA 1L0 - 902.652.2240 pllewellyn@shorelinedesignpei.com
Peter's signature "New Beginnings" piece represents, birth, re-birth and a renaissance of being. As the name implies, it's design signifies new life and it's intent is to inspire and encourage those who have made a change for the better in their lives. As the pieces of glass are worn and softened by the constant wearing against sand, stone and water, so our spirits and character are crafted and formed by the tides of life and our rough edges soothed and softened .
These unique pieces of genuine beach glass has been hand picked from the beaches of Prince Edward Island and made into
jewelry. From the 18th to the early 20th century, visits by sailing ships to Prince Edward Island was at an all time high.
Pieces of glass from these visits and later residential development spent years being naturally sculpted into smooth elegant
forms by the currents, tides and sand.
Seaglass Colours
The color of sea glass is determined by its original source. Most sea glass comes from bottles, but it can also come from jars,
plates, windows, ceramics or sea pottery.
The most common colors of sea glass are kelly green, brown, blue, white clear and purple(clear). Less common colors include jade, amber (from bottles for whiskey, medicine, spirits, and early bleach bottles), golden amber or amberina (mostly used for spirit bottles), lime green (from soda bottles during the 1960s), forest green, and ice- or soft blue (from soda bottles, medicine bottles, ink bottles, and fruit jars from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, windows, and windshields). These colors are found about once for every 25 to 100 pieces of sea glass found.
Uncommon colors of sea glass include a type of green, which comes primarily from early to mid-1900s Coca-Cola, Dr Pepper, and RC Cola bottles, as well as beer bottles. Soft green colors could come from bottles that were used for ink, fruit, and baking soda. These colors are found once in every 50 to 100 pieces.
Purple sea glass is very uncommon, as is citron, opaque white (from milk glass), cobalt and cornflower blue (from early Milk of Magnesia bottles, poison bottles, artwork, and Bromo-Seltzer and Vicks VapoRub containers), and aqua (from Ball Mason jars and 19th century glass bottles).
These colors are found once for every 200 to 1,000 pieces found.
Extremely rare colors include black,gray, pink (often from Great Depression era plates), teal (often from Mateus wine bottles), black (older, very dark olive green glass), yellow (often from 1930s Vaseline containers), turquoise (from tableware and art glass), red (often from old Schlitz bottles, car tail lights, dinnerware or from nautical lights, it is found once in about every 5,000 pieces),
and orange (the least common type of sea glass, found once in about 10,000 pieces). These colors are found once for every 1,000 to 10,000 pieces collected. Some shards of black glass are quite old, originating from thick eighteenth-century gin, beer and wine bottles.
New Beginnings
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