Cloisonne Ojime vs Chinese Beads | |||||
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As Frederick has noted in prior posts, the wirework in these small (12-13mm) beads is astonishingly fine. Most of us couldn't draw these patterns with a fine pen, let alone by bending hair-thin wires. Then coloring by stuffing pastes of ground glass into the holes, firing in a kiln, polishing with pieces of whetstones... Awesome, really.
I combined the Japanese beads with the similarly-sized koi and phoenix Chinese beads mentioned in a previous post, just for comparison purposes.
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