Powderglass, Light Green 4x6mm Very Uniform Shapes on 25-inch Strand
SKU: AFG-214
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- By the 1980s the shapes had gotten a lot more consistent and more colors of glass were being used, mostly with commercial pigments, like this green, added to clear glass rather than the former wine and beer bottle colors.
- The semi-matte finish on these powderglass beads works well with antique beads, metals and organic materials.
- 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.