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Using Gold and Silver in Glass Beads

Most people who know my work think that I only work in dichroic glass because I have done a lot of dichroic over the past 10 years, but I also use gold and silver in my glass beads.  Using gold and silver in or on your glass beads is not necessarily easier, but you can get some very interesting effects with these precious metals and a lot of bling. The first glass and gold beads were produced by the Romans to produce gold looking beads for the folks who could not afford solid gold beads.  They did this by blowing
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