bulk chinese pound beads
I find use of the phrase "Murano style" highly offensive, particularly when applied to Chinese mass produced (usually in sweat shop conditions) beads. These are not blown unless you blew on them yourself. They are wound, and more likely than not, not properly annealed (which means they can shatter, break... in general are not durable).

By using the phrase "Murano style" you are not only intentionally misleading people, but tarring and denigrating the work of accomplished artisans.

*Read the entire description*. These are not made in Murano. They are not made like they are made in Murano. In Murano they are made by highly trained artisans and kiln annealed to remove stress. In China they are not. The description of this product is fanciful at best.

garbage-rip off
Murano Style is an exageration. If the photo of the bead in the add is the best they can show all I can say is ewwwwwwwwwwwww. it has bubbles in it, unevely spaced dots, and looks like something a beginner student would produce. It is NOT anywhere near the high quality of REAL murano beads. The beads you are looking at are made in china, in often deplorable conditions, and are very poor quality. If you purchase this garbage you deserve what you get. Why not support real artisans and not people who try to rip off and trade on the good name of the real artisans of Murano. Dont be fooled.

Adding 'style' to a term does not actually mean much of anything
It is a serious disappointment to see such tag and description spamming as using terms geared towards gaining customers by using expressions such as 'Murano style' to describe cheap, unannealed beads. Sure, they're handmade, but being made by hand in a Chinese sweatshop isn't the same as being handmade in an artisan studio. Murano is an island where glass has been produced for hundreds of years. This cachet, the word 'Murano' gives an undeserved gloss to cheap beads that they don't deserve. There is no 'murano style', any more than there is a 'sicily style' or an 'iceland style'. It's an island with glass factories, not a single person creating works.

Glass beads are not hand 'blown'. I am always trying to imagine how you blow something by hand? Use a squeezy bulb you stole from your child's nasal extraction kit for when they're stopped up with a head cold? No, glass may be blown by mouth (using a long pipe to save your precious lips) but you can't blow anything by hand. And beads are certainly NOT blown, they're wound from hot glass around a mandrel.

Sadly, the term Murano is now becoming diluted and misused so often now that it has lost any of the reality that made people associate it with quality, artisan-made glasswork.

Murano =/= China. No amount of adding 'style' to the description will add any style to cheap, mass-produced items which have not been properly annealed and are described in an inappropriate fashion. Do not support inappropriate or misleading descriptions.

Support genuine handmade artists. Don't mistake work made by hand in a factory for work made by hand in an artist's studio.