New Chevron Bead by Anne Clifton. Handblown clear glass bead with orange highlights, photographed upright against a white shadowed background.

New Chevron Beads


Chevrons indulge Anne’s taste for the stripe. Traditionally chevrons are made of different coloured glass layers blown and stretched. The bubble becoming the hole, the pattern revealed by grinding back the layers. These chevrons are made in the contemporary method – still layered on a bubble but a series of canes have been made and then bundled and stretched again to build up the layers. This allows them to be both graphic and structural.


The over sized nature of these pieces, exaggerates their meticulous construction and inherent pattern. Their additional dimension takes them from a bead of adornment to an object of desire.


"While I love all chevrons, I have a preference for the disc cut chevron. The cross section reveals to me, the marrow or essence of what they are. There is absolutely no hiding while making or even wearing a cross section" 

AC

New Chevron Bead by Anne Clifton. Two Handblown clear glass beads. One clear with orange highlights and the second with coral and pale blue highlights photographed upright against a white shadowed background.
New Chevron Bead by Anne Clifton. Handblown clear glass bead with blue and green highlights, photographed upright against a white shadowed background.
New Chevron Bead by Anne Clifton. Handblown clear glass bead with brown lattice pattern, photographed upright against a white shadowed background.
New Chevron Bead by Anne Clifton. Handblown clear glass bead with brown lattice pattern, photographed on an angle to show the side view of the design and upright against a white shadowed background.
New Chevron Bead by Anne Clifton. Handblown clear glass bead with green and blue highlight, photographed upright against a white shadowed background.
New Chevron Bead by Anne Clifton. Handblown clear glass bead with red, white and blue highlight, photographed upright against a white shadowed background.
New Chevron Bead by Anne Clifton. Handblown clear glass bead with red, white and blue highlight, photographed upright against a white shadowed background.
New Chevron Bead by Anne Clifton. Handblown clear glass bead with orange and blue highlight, photographed upright against a white shadowed background.
New Chevron Bead by Anne Clifton. Handblown clear glass bead with orange and blue highlight, photographed upright against a white shadowed background.
New Chevron Bead by Anne Clifton. Handblown clear glass bead with white, orange and blue highlight, photographed upright against a white shadowed background.
New Chevron Bead by Anne Clifton. Two Handblown clear glass beads. One smaller and in the foreground, both clear glass with white, orange and blue highlights photographed upright against a white shadowed background.
New Chevron BeaNew Chevron Bead by Anne Clifton. Two Handblown clear glass beads. One smaller and in the foreground, both clear glass with white, orange and blue highlights photographed upright against a white shadowed background.d by Anne Clifton
New Chevron Bead by Anne Clifton. Handblown clear glass bead with white, orange and black highlight, photographed upright against a white shadowed background.
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