31st July 2011, 11:14 PM
You can indeed melt glass in a bonfire, and stretch bottles into interesting (and frightening) shapes, but melting glass and getting it to go around a mandrel and make a reasonable bead takes more than that.
Thanks for the photos! Blue annular beads, the most popular colour and shape. It's amazing how small a bead you can wind with a bit of hot glass. They're going to look very similar but you can sometimes tell quite a lot about the maker from the beads, including finish quality of the holes, things like the fosetta (dimple) at each end and shaping.
Thanks for the photos! Blue annular beads, the most popular colour and shape. It's amazing how small a bead you can wind with a bit of hot glass. They're going to look very similar but you can sometimes tell quite a lot about the maker from the beads, including finish quality of the holes, things like the fosetta (dimple) at each end and shaping.
Prime practitioner of headology, with a side order of melting glass with a stern glare.