Swarovski

The Swarovski Story

I like to keep my customers informed on what's happening.

The beautiful crystals we carry in Beadworks are authentic Swarovski Crystals.
As you know, the US dollar has been declining in value against the Euro and other international currencies. This increased the price of everything coming into the US from other countries. Presently it takes $1.00 to buy 63 cents of something in the Euro. That means we are paying over 1/3 more for what we buy overseas.

Perhaps you have seen price increases in other stores.

I don't see the currency valuations changing for the better anytime during 2008. If anything, we may see further devaluation. The Fed has been doing things to abate the fall of the dollar, but it takes time for corrections to work their way through the system.

In January, Beadworks was told that Swarovski prices were increasing and then in March we were advised of a second increase. Just for "grins" I checked the futures market and 90 day contracts on Euros were higher for US dollars purchasers.

Okay, maybe this is more information than you need.

We give you a 20% discount if you buy 20 packages (there are 12 beads in a package) of Swarovski.

Swarovski Crystal is considered by many people to be the finest quality, full-lead crystal made today.  It is optically very pure.  The crystal is faceted with tremendous precision which creates beautiful prisms.  Brilliant colors and/or coatings are used to create beads of dazzling beauty with tremendous variety of shapes and sizes.  Swarovski Crystal is unmatched in quality and distinction.

Daniel Swarovski and family founded the company in 1895.   For more than a century, Swarovski has been the world's leading supplier of the finest Crystal products available. Commitment to quality, innovation and value continues today in the Swarovski factory based in the Austrian Alps.

To cut hard materials such as crystal and gems in such a way that they have a hundred identical facets in several directions is a very complicated task.  Swarovski continues to follow the company motto, "To constantly improve what is good". First spoken by company founder Daniel Swarovski, these words guide the movement of the company towards being on the cutting edge of technology and fashion.  It experimented in the fifties with manufacturing processes in which the stones were coated with wafer thin metal particles in order to increase their sparkle creating the Aurora Borealis (AB) finish on half of the bead.  When the coating is applied to two sides of a bead, the designation 2X is added to the end of the color name. Swarovski crystal will not lose any of its brilliance over time. The precision and clarity of the material will not deteriorate.