These can be used for making reflective paint, signs, crafts or anything else you want to be reflective.
Simply mix 5 - 6 pounds of the beads into a gallon and mix thoroughly or after painting your item sprinkle generously over the paint while it's still wet (most people like this method better as it reflects more).
Tip:
Put a drop cloth below where you're sprinkling them so you can catch the ones that bounce off (there'll be a lot of them) so you can reuse them.
Glass beads are heavier than plastic
There are several websites for venetian glass beads. Use your search engine and type in venetian glass beads. The sites should pop up and you can browse to your heart's content.
Italian glass blowing techniques such as latticinio and zanfirico are adapted here to make beads. Furnace glass uses large decorated canes built up out of smaller canes, encased in clear glass and then extruded to form the beads with linear and twisting stripe patterns. No air is blown into the glass. These beads require a large scale glass furnace and annealing (glass) kiln for manufacture.
Use static electricity or gravity. Get a statically charged object (static is always around when you don't want it) to draw the Styrofoam away from the glass. Or put them in a container and shake until the glass settles to the bottom and the Styrofoam winds up on top.
It is aluminum powder. The powder is mixed with polystyrene beads, which help distribute the powder. It's possible that the beads also create a little electrostatic charge, which makes the powder stick to the glass better.
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Lampwork glass beads are often used to make jewelry. Some examples of this jewelry can be found online at Lampwork-Beads-Glass, Zacoo, and Lima Beads.
The most sustainable beads are pearl beads. They are much stronger and last much longer than glass beads. This is one of the reasons they cost more than glass beads.
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YES! Because when you heat the mixture of water and glass beads up at boiling temperature, the water will evaporate and leave the glass beads behind. =-)
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Technically there are only one type of glass beads. The reasoning behind this is because there is only one type of glass, which would actually just be glass.
about 15 beads an ounce
The surface area is increased by the glass beads.
Many of the paintings are valued at a price close $45 each. The amount for each painting will depend upon the condition that it is in.
No, they are not.