| Original Message: What Are The Most Rare Chevron Beads? |
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A few weeks ago, I was visiting Jody McDonnell, my friend who owns Legendary Beads in Santa Rosa—a very nice bead store. During our conversation, we began discussing her trip to Venice a while back, in which she met a beadmaker, who offered to make her a unique selection of chevron beads for her store. She actually watched him prepare and pull the cane, and asked her for advice along the way—in terms of desired colors, diameter of canes, and the like. The next day (or perhaps two days later), the beads were ready to be picked up. When we ask ourselves about chevron bead rarity, we begin with the knowledge that, by their nature—being drawn beads—there would be very few beads that are statistically unique (unless we are discussing the fine points of cutting layers and shapes), because any particular bead is going to be very similar to the beads next to it, in terms of the parent cane. And we know that many canes are produced as editions, so there would be many canes that are similar or reasonably similar, and many more beads made from them. But, it seems to me that if you contract a beadmaker to produce a single cane for you, that provides a limited number of beads from that pull, these must be pretty rare chevron beads. I asked Jody where these beads were, and she told me they were in a bowl on her desk in her office—and she went to retrieve them. As they were for sale, I made a selection of six smaller longer beads, and a single larger oval bead. We can see photos below. By the way, the maker is not our friend Luigi Cattelan, but another Muranese. Jamey All rights reserved by Bead Collector Network and its users |
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