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These are clear glass beads that are coated in gold plating, then fired. They are then coated with color and refired, shrinking the color coating away from the plating, forming the ‘fissures’. Each Desert Sun bead is unique, some with more fissures than others. The second firing may result in varied shades of the same color.
