Well, our last day in Venice arrived, for yet another design trip. The weather was absolutely gorgeous this time around— unlike the driven snow and high water that we experienced last March. We collected our final bead samples, and assembled the various bits and pieces into the rough finished bead sequences for each design. We
Progress continues on our new designs. One of them will be rather different from previous Marco Polo designs— and we’re sure you’ll find the difference pleasing! (Sorry, can’t spill any more beans than that, yet! ;-} ) We thought you might like to get a few glimpses of this master bead-maker at work. This particular gent and
Claude Cruz, Marco Polo Designs Lead Designer: Today, Marco Polo Designs introduces a new collection that opens some new design terrain for our company. The “Denim” collection is a cool-blue design that uses sterling silver bead cores (“animas”) to bring beautiful light and sparkle to these captivating pieces. I chose the color palette to focus
