Powderglass, Chocolate Brown 1980s Era Beads 5x6mm on 26-inch Strand
SKU: AFG-230
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- By the 1980s the shapes had gotten a lot more consistent and more colors of glass were being used, mostly from commercial pigments like this yummy brown added to clear glass. The wine and beer bottle glass was being eclipsed.
- Ground glass, the consistency of sand, was funneled into 5x8mm depressions in a clay tablet. A small stick was inserted in the center of each glass filled space. When the clay slab was heated the glass would melt enough to fuse and the stick would burn away leaving the hole.
- These were what I now call level 1 powderglass beads. Level 2 saw the advent of different colors of glass being layered on top of each other creating horizontally striped beads. Level 3 brought vertical stripes and we are now at Level 4 where glazed surface decorations have taken over from patterns made with the powder in the mold.