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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 1827991, member: 5833&quot;]I was looking through the linked page with &#039;wound&#039; in my head as an injury.&nbsp; Fortunately, in my skimming my eye caught this:</p><p><br /></p><p><b>For over two hundred years, beads were made in Murano by a method known as &quot;winding.&quot; 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.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>Yes, your beads have all the appearance of having been made by that technique.<b>&nbsp; </b>As you read, use of these beads was not confined to Africa, &amp; 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 &#039;ethnographic art&#039; &amp; picked up a little.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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