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Original Message:   Re: "Fried Egg" Pattern
Hi Nancy,

The "fried egg" design or pattern is made via trailing. It consists of superimposed spots, like a stratified eye pattern—and is NOT a millefiori pattern.

The vast numers of millefiori patterns do not have names, except general ones. When I did my classification system (1982), I could not even get people to agree that a simple distinction between "star patterns" and "flower patterns" was easily interpretable (though I continue to maintain that it is, and I continue to do so). So, what that means is there is very likely to be a LOT of individual opinions about canes, their interpretation, and what they should be named. It's like the difference (in plants and animals) between a scientific name and a popular name.

A plant has only one scientific name (though this can be changed through making a case for priority or speciousness), though it may have dozens of popular names. Once a scientific name has been changed, it can take the populace years to catch up. Sometimes they never do. (My favorite example: the plant called Aloe vera was renamed in the late 1960s. Yet over 30 years later people still call it that name, which they also mispronounce as "alo-veruh," when it is actually "a-LOH-eh-VEH-rah".)

The so-called "peace cane" is one I call a trifoil. In fact, it doesn't look like a peace sign at all. It is made from three color sections (like a pie chart) that are typically brick-red, blue, and green (or yellow). It's a stupid (that is, ignorant) name, in my opinion.

Luann, let's be careful here! You begin by asking for a list of millefiori cane pattern names; but you end with a call for "bead names." These are two entirely different things. Let's be clear about what we want (you CAN want both after all), and what we are suggesting--but not confuse one for the other.

Cheers, Jamey

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