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2. Glass bead making - Wikipedia

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   Lampworked dichroic glass bead showing thin film application Furnace glass beads. A variant of the wound glass bead making technique, and a labor-intensive one, is what is traditionally called lampworking. In the Venetian industry, where very large quantities of beads were produced in the 19th century for the African trade, the core of a ...

3. Seed bead - Wikipedia

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   Two principal techniques are used to produce seed beads: the wound method and the drawn method. The wound method is the more-traditional technique, is more time-consuming, and is no longer used in modern bead production: in this technique, a chunk of glass known in glassmaking as a gather and composed mainly of silica is heated on an iron bar until molten.

4. Murano beads - Wikipedia

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   Millefiori beads from Murano. Murano beads are intricate glass beads influenced by Venetian glass artists. Since 1291, Murano glassmakers have refined technologies for producing beads and glasswork such as crystalline glass, enamelled glass (smalto), glass with threads of gold (), multicolored glass (millefiori), milk glass (lattimo) and imitation gemstones made of glass.

5. Kiffa beads - Wikipedia

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   The term Kiffa bead, named after one of the old bead making centres of Kiffa in Mauritania, was coined by United States bead collectors during the 1980s. According to Peter Francis, Jr., the making of powder glass beads in West Africa may date back a few hundred years, and to possibly 1200 CE in Mauritania.

6. Stock market today: Wall Street hits records despite tariff talk

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   NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks rose to records Tuesday after Donald Trump’s latest talk about tariffs created only some ripples on Wall Street, even if they could roil the global economy were ...

7. Bonds bounce, dollar dips on Bessent pick

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   New Zealand's stock market has notched its best two-day rally since June, gaining 3.2% on Thursday's close. The currency touched a one-year low of $0.5917 on Friday and traded a little firmer at ...