Hello and welcome to Shore Treasures! Here you will find all kinds of items made from seaglass I have collected myself from Seaham beach in North East England, just 10 miles from my house.

My love of seaglass started a couple of years ago, when a chance walk along the beach led me to find what still is one of my favourite pieces of seaglass, the lovely blue-green striped piece in my photos above. At the time I didn't know much about seaglass and spent hours researching what it was and where it came from. The more I read, the more amazing I found it.

The seaglass that washes up on the shore of Seaham beach is from John Candlish's bottleworks, the biggest glass-bottle works in britain from 1853 to 1921. Waste glass was dumped in the sea each day, and it is these leftovers that have been tumbled and wash up on the beach each day in a variety of colours from the more common whites, greens and browns, to blues, reds, yellows oranges, blacks and even purples.

Seaham is also fabled to be one of the few places in the world where you can find multi seaglass- layered pieces of different coloured glass. This is thought to have came about when colourants were be adding to the raw molten glass in a crucible. These Layers of colours would then up on the side of the crucible until the hardened glass was then cleaned from the crucible and tossed into the North Sea.

After this I was completely hooked, and would regularly take the dog for a walk and go collecting seaglass. It didn't take long however until I had filled lots of glass vases around the house, and realised I was going to have to do something to really show off this glass that has been in the North Sea for 100 years, if not more, and that's where the idea to make seaglass jewellery came from. I opened this shop right at the beginning of this, so I will be trying all kinds of different ways to make the most of these unique treasures, as well as other interesting bits and bobs that wash up on the North East coastline.

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