The Afghan Sea Glass necklace mixes an ancient tribal pendant and new, yet vintage looking, African glass beads. It’s tied around the neck with a silk tie-dyed ribbon. The pendant itself is bronze, encasing the very old glass, and with swirls of white bronze, dimensional flowers and geometric motifs. Set at the top is a faceted ruby.

This Afghan Sea Glass necklace is 18.5″ long, with a pendant that hangs 4.25″. The ribbon makes for a long statement piece, or tie it up to the shorter measurement.

The history of man-made glass starts in Mesopotamia, where craftsman discovered how to make glass in the third millennium BC. However, glass occurs naturally, forming when quartz sand melts at extremely high temperatures, and then the molten mass cools down.