Does anyone know how Goulamine beads (from Morocco) are actually made?

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Originally Posted by amike53

Does anyone know how Goulamine beads (from Morocco) are actually made?

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Goulamine beads, though typically associated with Morocco, are in fact products of Venetian glassblowers and are made with rods of glass of different colors, the cross-section of which is typically a star-pattern, and can be applied in a soft-molten state to an equally softened base, as for example, "goolies", as the Moroccan beads are popularly called, and other molten-glass items such as paperweights and other artistic souvenir forms widely found in Venice. These were very popular in the '60s in Italy and Europe with "hippies" and other world-trekking counter-culture "drop-outs" who would wear them on leather-thong necklaces, or wristlets, such as I once had. At least that was my personal experience in Italy in that period, when I also possessed a handful of the various colored rods of glass used in the making. Would that I still had them today. .