Recreation of a bead inspired by the historic bead found on
this post of the Text and Trowel Blog. On the blog the author says the red/white waves were completed by "tracing wave patterns with the red and white rod." I don't believe this was the case. I found that I could get this wave pattern by raking a line created by a red/white flattened cane of glass. If you look at the tip of the waves on the historic bead, you will see that the red seems to disappear. I found this happened during some of my tests as I pushed the striped cane out.
Another bead made with that same wave pattern. This one came from a picture in
Callmer's bead typology . It was originally dark blue, but I made the base it black for the person who had asked for this bead. It is similar to some of the beads pictures on
this post from the Text and Trowel Blog.
Another bead made with that same wave pattern. This one came from a picture in Callmer's bead typology . It was originally dark blue, but I made the base it black for the person who had asked for this bead. It is similar to some of the beads pictures on this post from the Text and Trowel Blog.
