Workshop | Glass Bead Making for Beginners at Mulranny Arts
Learn how to make attractive glass beads for your own custom jewellery.
Discover the captivating art of glass bead making in this introductory course. Start by mastering essential safety and torch-handling techniques.
Learn to melt colourful glass rods and wind the gather around a mandrel. After learning the round bead, go on to different shapes such as the barrel bead, the bicone and the disc.
Pull thin stringers to make dots and have fun with the multiple ways dots are used to decorate beads.
On day 2, after your beads have been annealed, you will remove from the mandrel and clean the holes. Back on the torch you will have time to practise what you learned on day one and continue to refine your techniques.
You will end up with multiple beads of various shapes and be entranced with the possibilities of decorative features.