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Highly strained glasses break easily if subjected to mechanical or thermal shock. Most bead makers today use a graphite plate or held paddle. Glassed container is most often cut by the "scratch and break" method, but can also be cut in a torch flame, and with an abrasive saw blade. They can be produced in great numbers in a short time, compared to wound glassed container beads which must be one at a time.

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Millefiori, meaning "thousand flowers", is the best known type. In the festoon, all combing is in one direction, while the feather alternates direction. These oxides are vaporized and deposited on the glassed container surface in a vacuum chamber, by heating the metal oxides between 1, 000 & 2, 500 degrees celsius.



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The finished murrini is sliced into thin chips that are then incorporated into a bead. Argand lamp an oil-burning lamp with a chimney, named for the swiss physicist and inventor aimé argand (1750-1803), who invented the tubular wick burner in 1782. They can be produced in great numbers in a short time, compared to wound glassed container beads which must be one at a time. The finished murrini is sliced into thin chips that are then incorporated into a bead.

Lampwork-a form of glassblowing where the glassed container is heated over a flame. The whole number value is generally used by itself when comparing different types of , such as coe 104 for moretti, and coe 90 for bullseye. Hot glassed container is rolled in frit to create the effect of small dots of color. Drawing-an essential step in glassblowing, where hot glassed container is pulled to make a longer and thinner piece.

Polychrome-meaning more than one color, in the context of glassed container beads, polychrome identifies individually created beads decorated by with several colors of . Applied decoration heated elements (such as canes, murrini, and trails) applied during manufacture to a object that is still hot, and either left in relief or marvered until they are flush with the surface.

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