| Original Message: Untoro Chevron Beads |
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I will show a few photos of beads I bought from Mr. Untoro. In particular, I was interested in the fact that his is one of at least three industries that make chevron beads. These products superficially resemble the Venetian prototypes in terms of color sequences (having red layers between white, and with a featured outer color, like blue, green, or black). However, the star canes are not molded as are Venetian, Chinese, and most American canes are made. They also do not actually resemble the clumsy hot-strip canes of India. I have to study this issue carefully (including making macro-photographs of beads and canes), but at the moment, I think what they do, essentially, is tool a concentrically layered gather, so that the layers become indented (in sequence), and look starry or flowery. This is the same task as molding, but is slower and less precise. While walking through his factory, I picked up some discarded star canes for making chevron beads. We can see from the present photo that the intent was to make a Venetian-like cane. Remembering that the extremes of perforated canes are usually imperforate, these star cane pieces were most likely discarded because they have no central channel. In the second photograph, we can see a strand of black chevron beads from Mr. Untoro, as well as a close-up of a few specimens. JDA. All rights reserved by Bead Collector Network and its users |
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