Bello Opal® Galaxy Collection (Mineral Type Created Opal) is composed by silica & very small portion of water. This opal is made to be compatible with COE 33 (borosilicate glass). It is the mainstream opal for lampworking glass art. It is as known as “Galaxy Opal”, “Created Opal” and “Gilson Opal”. It is available in 14 opal colours, such as water opal, milky opal, black opal, blue opal, pink opal and fire opal.

One of the main features of Galaxy Opal bead is that while rotating; there will be various of magical brilliance and gorgeous color, with attractive opal fire reflections. It is what we call “play of color”.

Galaxy Opal is lab grown synthetic opal resin free. It is essential to have two types of fire pattern which are dot pattern (A) and stripe pattern (B). This is one of the ways to verify the lab grown opal round bead.

Galaxy Opal round beads are available from size 2mm to 10mm. They usually come without hole.

CONSISTENCY

Sanwa offers consistent quality of Galaxy Opal beads.

SIZE OPTION

Galaxy Opal bead is available in different size, from 2mm to 10mm.

GLASSBLOWING ART

Galaxy opal is popularly used for glassblowing art as they are compatible with Borosilicate glass (COE33).

COLOR DIFFERENCE

Due to the feature of translucency , there could be bigger color difference among different size & shape. It is relatively obvious for light colors.