Dot Post Earring - Medium

*Please note these earrings are hand-made, so each pair is different. If you're not able to shop with us in person to see these gorgeous earrings, click here to schedule a virtual shopping trip.

All drop earrings feature nickel-free sterling silver ear wires, and the post earrings are nickel-free surgical steel. Handcrafted in the USA!  These earrings have an approximately 0.5-inch diameter.

The glass we use in our jewelry is called dichroic glass. The glass was first developed for scientific applications such as lasers and space mirrors. Vaporized metal oxides are deposited on the glass in microscopically thin layers. The brilliant colors are produced from light being reflected, just like what occurs in a rainbow or a dragonfly wing.

We've worked with glass since 1976, but we started experimenting with dichroic glass a little over a decade ago, and we've been at it ever since. There are an amazing number of steps in creating every single piece of jewelry.  Each piece is handled many times, and there is no machine that can make our glass. We fire the glass to over 1400 degrees several times in order to achieve the right effect. Each firing can take up to 12 hours from start to finish. When the sheet of glass is cool enough, we cut the shapes with diamond tools, polish the glass, match the earrings by the patterns we see, and complete the design. It's a lot of steps, and we do it by hand, but the results are worth it. It's like capturing lightning in a bottle, and every time we open the kiln, it's a new surprise.

Created in Leicester, NC, USA