Jewelry Components (Findings)
Beaded Brilliance uses high quality jewelry components most of which are hand made in Bali, a small island Indonesian archipelago renowned for its artistic and cultural heritage. All items are either made of pewter, sterling silver, or gold over silver, otherwise known as Vermeil.

Venetian Glass Beads
Susan Farber’s latest line of necklaces and earrings uses a lampwork Venetian Glass Bead from Murano or Venice, Italy as the focal point. Glass blowing on the island of Murano dates back to around 600 AD. The beads are among the most recognizable and coveted beads in the world. The most well known beads produced in the Venetian region are usually made using the wound lamp-work (torch and mandrel) and drawn (pulled cane) methods.

Lampwork Beads
Ms Farber uses lampwork beads made in Italy, Czech Republic and China. The lamp-work method is the most time consuming, as each bead is made individually. Using a torch for heat, glass cane is heated to a molten state and wrapped around a metal rod until the desired shape is formed. Several layers of glass in varying colors, as well as gold and silver leaf, may be used to produce the desired effect. The bead is then cooled very slowly and removed from the rod, thus producing a hole for eventual stringing. Lampwork beads come in many styles and shapes, including charms, cylinders, rounds, squares.

Cultured Fresh Water Pearls
Many of Susan Farber’s designs incorporate cultured fresh water pearls of varying size, color and shape. These pearls, often imported from China, are produced by a mollusk after the intentional introduction of a foreign object inside it's shell.

Pearls are said to eliminate mental disturbance, endow maternal bliss, grant success in education, and also give access to property and vehicles.

Swarovsky Crystal
Ms. Farber uses Swarovsky crystal, the finest quality, full lead crystal made today. It is manufactured in Wattens, Austria and contains a minimum of 32% PbO, making the crystal optically very pure.

Swarovsky coats some of its crystals with special metallic chemical coatings. Aurora Borealis, or "AB", is one of the most popular coatings, and gives the surface a rainbow oil slick appearance. Coatings are applied to 50% of an object, however some are coated two times, and thus are designated AB 2X. The greater the coating, the higher the price per bead. Many of Susan Farber’s designs contain AB or AB 2X crystal, as the finish makes the bead sparkle beautifully when light hits it in a particular way.