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These are "raked squiggle" beads of varying success. The blue/white one in the foreground is MOP blue and MOP white and it's quite pretty. The red/black one is OK, but the raking is a bit off as I couldnt tell the two glasses apart when they were hot enough to rake. The black/green one had stringer problems (too much clear in my stringer). The "Christmas" bead had rake problems. The last two, at right, are on clear Czech purple cores, and they are a little messy but show some promise. These are fairly large beads, so as to have room for the squiggle and the raking.