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A short explanation of Glass Beads:Glass beads were first made over four thousand years ago in Egypt. A rod of glass (made previously) was melted over a small furnace with a hole in the top, and the molten glass trailed around a thin metal rod (a mandrel) covered with a mixture of mud or clay and straw, to form the separate beads. This rod and the mixture were easily removed when the beads had cooled. Usually Egyptian beads were blue, and often decorated with yellow stripes or spots.
The Romans also made beads, and the tradition was continued by the Venetians and later the Bohemians. Today, all over the world, hand-made beads are created by lampwork techniques very similar to the original Egyptian methods. Larger scale production continues in Czechoslovakia, Venice and Japan. Historically beads have been used for trading as money, for personal ornament and decoration, as valuable assets (found for example in Egyptian tombs) and as beautiful objects in their own right.
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