Originally Posted by
amike53
Does anyone know how Goulamine beads (from Morocco) are actually made?
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. .
