The prototypes are cross-pierced mosaic-glass beads. Beads that are made from a piece of patterned cane (typically striped on its exterior), that has been heated and then manually pierced through its girth (not longitudinally), and finally rounded. The muracad beads copy the exterior look while remaining normal powderglass beads (or so-decorated beads with recycled cores, if that is the case).

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