Making An Angel In The Glass Bead

Furnace glass
Italian glass blowing techniques such as latticinio and zanfirico are adapted to make beads. Furnace glass uses large decorated canes built up out of smaller canes, encased in clear glass and then extruded to form the beads with linear and twisting stripe patterns. No air is blown into the glass. These beads require a large scale glass furnace and annealing kiln for manufacture.