Pseudo-chevron beads from India made their USA debut in 1985. I first saw and acquired them at the International Bead Conference in Long Beach California.

This is precisely what they looked like in 1985. It was not until about 1990 that their beads began to resemble the Venetian beads that they then attempted to copy—but using the hot-strip method (and not cane molding, as practiced at Venice, and less than twenty years ago in China).

I would have posted this earlier, had I been aware of this dialogue.

JDA.