The Bead Report by Suzanne Basnett Beer N Beadz October 2009 Sunlight Art Glass, Surrey, BC

Ania arrives as Tamara experiments with dichro slide on the torch.	The dichro is cut into strips and laid out for use.
As Tamara rolls the hot bead on the dichro slide -- look out-- FIRE!! Don't try this at home.	Lynne carefully removes the dichro from the paper to see if this works any better.
Trying to roll it on without the paper.	Finally, Tamara tries placing the dichro slide on the hot bead with pliers...CONCLUSION: Dichro slide does not work for flamework.

Lynne and Ania discussing glass.	Ania discusses beadmaking with Kerri and Stephanie.
Kerri and Stephanie listening to bead talk.	Ania demonstrates a wavy bead from a tutorial found on lampworketc.com.
Ania makes a disc with a black and white twistie.	After making the disc with the twistie, Ania adds large clear dots.

Dots are finished.	And slowly melted in.
Ania takes it one step further and encases the bead.	Now the encasing is melted down and the bead is rounded out. Nice bead.
Ania makes another wavy bead using 104 COE Raku.	Again large dots are added to the disc.

The dots are carefully melted in.	The bead is rounded out.
And voila. A wavy bead.	Now Ania is making a twistie using Satake glass to demonstrate how easily it flows.
The twistie is wrapped onto a base bead.	Everything is melted together.

Now the bead is held upside down to allow the hot glass to flow.	A final fire polishing.
	Thank you Tamara for a great evening.
And here's the finished bead.

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