Scrap glass beads?

Would I be right in thinking back yard craft type beads?. Look like rough spun glass formed into beads. All sorts of inclusions.
Which country would make something like this?
Thanks for looking

 

I guess they could be Chinese but I would Italy.....

 

They look like the stuff that came out of India in the 1970s.
I could be wrong though.
Wait for others.

 

Thought same, but not specialist

 

This would be my guess as well.

 

I would wash them up to see what they really look like.

 

I googled Indian beads but couldn’t find any quite like them with the spun glass effect.
It’s not important, I just like to know!

 

Yes, they need a good scrub. Pretty colour even if they are a bit rough!

 

They look like some form of trade bead to me, made in Italy for use in business transactions in Africa at one time. They are highly collectible, or were before the economy went into free fall, so would not be too hasty in the disposition without some further research.

 

What are they strung on?

 

I will research trade beads Bronwen. Thankyou for that lead. They are strung half on hemp type thread and half on that clear plastic cord stuff so they broke and were cobbled back together.

 

Found this interesting page. On the hunt for similar looking ones. They are talking about 'wound beads', would these come under this category, even if at a basic level of craftsmanship?!
https://www.peachstatearchaeologicalsociety.org/index.php/13-beads/248-history-of-trade-beads

 

I was looking through the linked page with 'wound' in my head as an injury. Fortunately, in my skimming my eye caught this:

For over two hundred years, beads were made in Murano by a method known as "winding." With this method, beads were made individually by drawing a molten glob of glass out of the furnace and winding it around an iron rod.

Yes, your beads have all the appearance of having been made by that technique. As you read, use of these beads was not confined to Africa, & it is a whole field of study I know next to nothing about, but used to see strands of them at a bead store operated by someone who also dealt in 'ethnographic art' & picked up a little.

 

Good old English language when one word can have multiple meanings and pronunciations!.
Thankyou for your input though or I may have dismissed them as broken bottle beads. I will research more and report back with any findings.

Shame it doesn't tell us which 200 years that method was popular.
I also like this image, I wonder if part of the interview process was timing how quickly they could sprint from one end of the corridor to the other
An assistant took the end of the rod and run down a long corridor before the glass cooled.

 

I found a lot of Murano glass beads that were "wound" but they were more rounded and I figured if I showed them as a comparison, someone would think I was stretching it. Truth is there were not any clear examples that looked like yours and that makes me think they are something special...(But, then again,I think a lot of things are special!)

 

Normally the things I think are special are rubbish and the things I’m excited about people . Then the things I’ve nearly passed over become the most exciting!

 

The way they are on cord rather then a modern bead stringing material also suggests trade beads, although of course no guarantee by itself.

There are so many perfectly pronounceable combinations of letters we don't use at all, how we end up with so many homonyms, wound/wound, wind/wind, seems like sheer laziness & failure of invention. Anyone know if these are more common in English than in other languages? Or does it just seem that way?

 

Definite similarities to Dogon beads. I will investigate further!