Blown Beads or Venetian Blown Beads
When the lamp-work flame was introduced, bead-makers discovered they could melt the canes and then blow the glass. Today this glassblowing is called the Filigrana or Filigree Method. To produce these beads with stripes of color and spirals, glass-makers lay canes of glass down then pick them up with a blow-pipe.
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Famous quotes containing the words blown, beads and/or venetian:
“No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.”
—Sir William Osler (1849–1919)
“With its frame of shaking curls all in disarray,
earrings swinging,
make-up smudged by beads of sweat,
eyes languid at the end of lovemaking,
may the face of the slim girl
who’s riding on top of you
protect you long.
What’s the use
of Vi.s».n»u, iva, Skanda,
and all those other gods?”
—Amaru (c. seventh century A.D.)
“I was happy there,
part Venetian vase,
part Swiss watch, part Indian head.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)