Dichroic Jewelry by the McCoy Family

Essential Glassworks is a family business established in 1992 which creates fine jewelry from dichroic art glass. The company consists of Michael, Nancie and Heather who each contribute their expertise to the hand crafted elegant jewelry pictured here.

Each piece of jewelry is hand crafted with individual characteristics and not mass produced. Dichroic art glass is the component of the jewelry that adds such a wild display of color and light. Dichroic, Greek for two lights, is a dynamic art glass that transmits and reflects color. The glass is created through vacuum deposition in which chemicals are introduced into a spinning vacuum with the glass forcing an ultra-thin quartz crystal structure to grow on the surface of the glass. The crystal structure literally bends the light, creating a visual feast of movement between color spectrums.

If you want to be showered with compliments, you'll definitely need to begin collecting their work!