One-Day Bead Workshop

We are starting to learn the art of bead-making, one of the flame working techniques, with fundamental shaping methods. Beads, which can be molded using freehand and mold shaping techniques, are a material that can be diversified with various decoration methods later on. These working techniques form the foundational steps for thousands of different processes that can be applied.

The most fundamental process in bead-making is to create a perfectly rounded sphere. This involves continuously rotating glass rods in the flame until a sufficiently sized bead is formed, which is then wrapped around a steel rod previously coated with bead separator. In this one-day workshop, after learning to create basic shapes such as triangles, cubes, cylinders, and flat forms, we will embellish them with dotting and line techniques, resulting in a variety of glass beads.

Instructor: KADRİYE CAMCI