Bead necklace

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This necklace was made using the powder glass technique. This technique involves pouring pulverised glass into clay moulds. These are round slices of about one centimetre thick, with a varying number of holes in them. A straw is inserted into each hole, so that later there will be a hole in the bead. The mould filled with powder glass is heated in an oven. Because of the relatively low temperature of the oven, the glass doesn't melt completely, which results in a grainy structure. After firing, the beads are sanded by rubbing them on a stone plate.\Description String of beads consisting of 88 glass beads. They are small cylindrical beads, slightly tapered and made using the powder glass technique. They are also called Ashanti beads. These beads are multicolored: yellow with red or yellow with green, vertically stratified.