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A 2017 Art Seymour Chevron
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Posted by: Joyce Post Reply
08/30/2017, 21:58:20

I'm very happy to own another chevron by the master of chevron bead creation! The new one is in the foreground. It's an elongated bicone made up of 6 longitudinally fused rosetta canes, twisted. It's about 42mm x 20mm, with a 5mm perforation. It rests in front of another of the same type, from 2015, about 30mm x 20mm.

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Zanfirico?
Re: A 2017 Art Seymour Chevron -- Joyce Post Reply Edit Forum Where am I?
Posted by: birdi Post Reply
08/31/2017, 07:51:54

If it was made by Art Seymour, do Italian words apply? From a glossary of Venetian glass posted earlier:

Zanfirico – A type of glass cane made by assembling a bundle of different coloured rods and heating them until soft. The bundle is then attached to two metal pontils or metal rods before being drawn out and elongated. During this process the bundle is twisted to produce a spiral pattern. This process was originally known as vetro a retorti, but was renamed in recognition of a Venetian dealer called Antonio Sanquirico, who in the 1830s encouraged the revival of this and other traditional techniques on Murano.

http://www.bigbeadlittlebead.com/guides_and_information/venetian_glass_glossary.php



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Posted by: Art Post Reply
08/31/2017, 16:10:45

I'm not sure what the Italians would call my process. I call them compound cane. I think the technique you mention is for solid finished rods which are then later picked up for decoration in blown ware, not made hollow for bead cane stock. I trained with Mike Nourot who learned Italian glass blowing techniques at Veninni in the early 70's. But we never made this type of cane. The only canes we made were for use in full murrini vases Micheal made. I only decided to make these beads in around 2014 and I have no knowledge of Italian descriptives. The Italian beads made with compound canes similar to mine usually have the patterns mixed up and smeared a bit and have no core cane in the pattern. Adding the core cane and keeping the canes well organized and not letting the patterns get smeared make these canes very difficult to create. The process requires a tremendous amount of waste of material and a great deal of time at the furnace, but the finished beads are worth that loss and all the effort to me.



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Atomic Chevrons
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Posted by: rosetta Post Reply
09/01/2017, 22:41:12

These beads open the chevron cane at the "atomic level" where you can see all the detail. From someone who has cold worked a bounty of chevron cane, including some of Arts, these are top examples of chevron mastery.
-Alan



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What he said
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Posted by: lopacki Post Reply
09/02/2017, 12:33:38

As always Art....... The best of the best the top of the top.



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Awesome beads!!!
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09/02/2017, 12:37:47



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