Large yellow powderglass bead with stripes in green and brown, 44mm long
The bead has 6 stripes on one side and only 2 on the other, hole about 4mm
Collected in Ghana early 1970s
Powderglass beaddmaking resembles, and is probably derived from, ancient faience beadmaking. It is completely different from the “hot working” techniques most spectacularly practiced in Venice.
Large furnaces for actually making glass from scratch were not available in Africa, but African beadmkakers developed, and continue to expand into increasingly complex techniques for recycled glass beadmaking.
The yellow glass came from crushed yellow beads, while the green came from wine bottles and the brown from beer bottles. For an excellent book on the process see The Art of Recycled Glass Beads by Philippe Kradolfer and Nomoda Djaba.
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