Mr. Suparno is an adept glass-beadmaker, whom we watched and photographed (including videotaping) for a while, in a room with two or three other workers. We see him here at his work station, using a long pre-formed plain cane to compose a wound-and-decorated glass bead. His stock of canes is on the left, and a pail of mandrels with dry white mandrel-release compound can be seen to the right.

We can see, in the 2nd photo, that he makes two beads at a time (on one mandrel), in this instance from black glass, decorated with red and white trailed lines, that are then combed into festoons. The resulting beads are flattened to become tabular. We can see some finished beads to the left of his torch.

JDA.