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Marco was wrong: making seed beads was man’s work. First they had to clear enough space in the workshop and outlying buildings to pull one hundred yards of cane. Marco had to practice forming a uniform, proportional pastone that would then be heated and pierced, and Stefano taught Giacomo, Marcolin and Raffaele how to pull it into a long cane. A cousin of his showed them how to chop the cane into tiny cylinders, sieve out the fragments and fill the holes with a paste that kept them open when heated. Then the beads were turned and stirred in a hot drum filled with sand to smooth the edges, and ...more
The Glassmaker
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