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Wound glass bead from glass paste
The bead is made of a glass paste and pierced. The bead belongs to the fantasy beads that are wound. A drawn glass rod is heated over a flame and wound around a knitting needle. Differently coloured glass sticks are used to decorate the bead in the form of feathers, bands, circles, stripes or dots. When the bead is still liquid, the decoration melts into it.™ As early as 2000 BC, glass was being m…
Date
- [N.B.]
Medium
- Material: glass
- glass
- Glass
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Creation date
- 0-0
Provenance
- 1969-01-02
- Aankoop
Identifier
- http://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/europeana-fashion/119051
Is part of
- Europeana XX: Century of Change
Is related to
- bead
- ambergris
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2020-03-31T16:16:09.268Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2021-10-20T13:51:01.552Z