Carrying a precious cargo from Venice to Carigrad the Venetian merchant ship under the comand of captain Alvise Finardi sunk in the year of 1583, near the isle of Gnalić, where systematic archeological research is taking place today. Amongst the rich cargo of glass, glass beads were highlighted, made in the famous glass workshops of the Murano islet. Methodological elaboration found that glass beads from Gnalić shipwreck were created by drawing technique, popular in the 16th and 17th centuries. In addition to Venice there were also a numerous of other European manufacturers who did glass beads. Glass beads are one of the most important indicators that suggest us where through the past they ran Early Modern waterways because they were found everywhere in the world. Glass beads were worn by ladies and gentlemen of an Early Modern society and also by members of native tribes in newly-established areas by European colonists. Unfortunately, the Gnalić beads were never delivered to Constantinople, and consenquently, never adorn one of Ottoman Empire ladies. Today Gnalić glass beads enrich display cases of museum exhibition, providing a possibility to study glass ornament from the Late Renaissance period.