Murrini and Glass Beads
Trey Cornette's bead
This is one of Trey Cornette’s fabulous glass beads. He makes the most amazing flower and dot/squiggle beads. What I like to do is make the murrini that goes onto beads like Trey’s, rather than beads like Trey’s, cause I sure don’t want to steal his cool ideas.
What is murrini you ask? Well, let’s start from the begining. Imagine something the shape of a can of soda, and when you look at the end you see a picture, say of a fish. Now stretch out that can so it is shaped like a paper towel tube. It is longer and skinnier, but when you look at the end you still see a picture of the fish. That shape is called a “came” or “cane” depending on who you are talking to. When you slice the cane into little pieces, each one will be thin and have a picture of the fish. That piece is called a “murrini”. Murrini is Italian for “thousand flowers”, which makes sense because you get a whole lot of slices from one pull!
I’ve discovered over time that I don’t particularly like using murrini, but I sure do like making it! So far I’ve made flowers like in Trey’s bead using a raku/intense black combo, and an opal yellow/intense black combo. If you make beads, what other combos would you like to see?
May 19, 2009
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johoff · 
3 Comments
Tags: glass bead, lampwork, murrini, trey cornette · Posted in: bead, lampwork
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Very nice! And I learnt something too! Thanks for sharing.
those are very pretty, and the color is great. But I LOVE your raku – has a special place in my heart!
Fabulous indeed!