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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 2779266, member: 8267&quot;]Your beads look more like ceramic or artificial polymer. One of the clues is the straight edges at the ends of the applied stripes. </p><p><br /></p><p>Glass would be worked in a hot state. Working over a flame, the artisan would have the base bead on a mandrel. The stripes would be added by heating a round, colored rod of glass until it melted enough to lay it onto the base bead. It would trail off at each end where the rod was touched on and pulled off. The bead would then be rolled on a flat surface, &quot;marvered&quot;, to smooth it out. </p><p><br /></p><p>On your beads you can see that it looks more like little strips of clay/polymer were rolled out like dough, cut into strips, and pressed onto the surface.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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