Elemental

Elemental is a spiral embossed, smooth, etched handmade lampwork glass focal bead with lots of reactions happening between the colours. Ivory and black have been super-heated to create a "bleeding" effect - add the stripes of fine silver-coated ivory glass to the mix and you get a gorgeous organic effect.

On top of all that, this bead was embossed on both sides with an indent spiral and finally etched to give it a beautiful finish, with a surface that feels a little like a Mint Imperial sweet!

There's a lot of handmade going on in this bead as the tool I used to emboss the spiral was made by my own fair hands. Sometimes I like the precision of a machined bead press but this time I wanted something a little less even - and it worked perfectly!

➻ Effetre glass.
➻ Height: 32mm
➻ Widest point: 20mm
➻ Depth: 8mm
➻ Wound on a 2mm mandrel

More information and photos about this piece in my Etsy shop here: [link]