Austrian Crystals – 35mm AB Flame Crystal Suncatcher

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Austrian Crystals – 35mm AB Flame Crystal Suncatcher

With Exclusive Austrian Crystal Bead Hanger with Glass Accents

$49.00

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Item # AB35-8950-8854

The new flame crystal is amazing. It changes colors intensely as you view it from different angles, and it throws off a wonderful rainbow display when you hang it in a sunny window. At only 35mm (1.4 in. high), it would seem to be a small prism. Its width and depth result in a prism much heavier and with greater optical depth than any other prism of its height. Included is an approximately 10 inch clear crystal bead hanger.

Our exclusive Crystal Realm bead hangers are made in a variety of beading patterns using Austrian crystal beads and either long glass bugle beads, shown, or seed beads. Please allow us to select a beaded strand that complements your crystal perfectly.

Our bead hangers are strung right here in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and assembled with your crystal prism.

Please allow 5 working days for your suncatcher to ship.

Please note, the distance between two long lines on our scale represents 5mm (6.4mm = .25 in.).

What is AB – otherwise known as an Aurora Borealis coating – on a crystal prism?

Austrian crystals, made by Swarovski, are colored in various ways, using different metal oxides. A crystal that is perfectly clear but colored has metal oxides mixed in with the lead and silica when the crystal is created. Examples of metal oxides are gold for red, cobalt for blue, or nickel for light green, violet, or blue. Our sapphire or red hearts or stars are examples. 

Very often, a clear or colored crystal is further treated by adding a subtle, extremely fine, colored coating to the crystal. This results from a vacuum process in which the metal oxides are applied to a surface of the crystal, usually the back, or in the case of round prisms, on one portion of them.

A lightly, pastel-colored coating is known as Aurora Borealis, or AB for short. The result is a gorgeous crystal with extra color, sparkle and shine. 

In suncatchers, colored crystals will give the same rainbow display that clear crystals give when in the direct sun. Add the AB coating to a clear or colored crystal and the color display will be even more riotous: rainbows and solid swatches of mauve, aqua, orange.

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