What is Sea Glass?

Sea (or Beach) Glass is formed when bits of broken glass are rounded and smoothed by the tumbling action of the waves and sand. The longer the glass lies in the ocean's depths, the smoother and more desirable it becomes. Over the past 30 years or so, sea glass has started to become more and more difficult to find as the transition to plastics became more prevalent in our culture. When I was a small child it was a whole lot easier to find a stunning piece of cobalt blue or even a vibrant red. Today, much of the sea glass that is found comes from beer bottles tossed into the water by vacationing beach goers and college students/young adults. For that reason, the most common colors that can be found today are those in the green, white and brown shades.



Sea Glass is now a prized treasure, highly sought after and considered by many as beautiful as a flawless diamond. Perhaps this is where Sea Glass Jewelry comes into play. Many artists have taken to using Sea Glass as unique "gems" in their jewelry creations. The prices for these spectacular pieces can skyrocket into the hundreds of dollars depending on the rarity of the glass used. The Sea Glass jewelry created in our studios started out with two small pieces of green glass collected locally off of Scarborough Beach, here in Narragansett, RI. Simply put, they looked like the perfect size for earrings and so they became. From there, a small business was born, as was a desire to keep these beautiful pieces affordable and eye pleasing to potential customers. With those goals in mind, we turned to tumbled glass as an affordable alternative to supplement our designs.

Now what is tumbled glass? It is simply broken pieces of glass that are tumbled in a machine to recreate the effect of sand, sea and time in about 1-2 weeks as opposed to years. Tumbling in a machine allows for many beautiful colors -now extremely difficult to find naturally- to be turned into fabulous one of a kind pieces that we can offer to you at reasonable prices. Many of our pieces still include glass collected locally off the beaches and we will be happy to answer any questions you have as to the origin of the glass used in a particular piece.



In celebration of summer we are now offering FREE SHIPPING on all of our Narragansett Sea Glass Jewelry pieces, so stop on by and check out what we have in stock! Oh and keep in mind that we also create custom pieces to match just about any color scheme you could imagine!