tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3448259307836351996.post2403021830763448309..comments2024-01-06T10:38:37.486-05:00Comments on Conciatore: From Beads to Belief ReprisePaul Englehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12112332768470669999noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3448259307836351996.post-13507033522100518382014-06-07T15:30:44.184-04:002014-06-07T15:30:44.184-04:00Great blog and I'm excited for the book! Just ...Great blog and I'm excited for the book! Just a couple of notes on bead making:<br /><br />1) Cane can refer to solid cane for wound bead manufacture, such as with lampworked beads, but in this case it most likely refers to hollow canes used in drawn bead manufacture.<br /><br />2) "Spiei" also suggests drawn beads, not wound beads. In the 17th century the Paternostri bead making guild used a "spiei," or multi-pronged spit, to heat beads within a furnace and round the short segments of hollow bead cane into finished beads-- also known as the "a speo" method. See Karlis Karklins' great 1993 article in "Beads: The Journal for the Society of Bead Researchers" about this process.<br /><br />3) "Ferraccia" beads are also drawn beads manufactured from a hollow cane; they are not pierced. In the 17th century these were manufactured by members of the Margareteri bead making guild. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com