General information
Perls are more than 1000 years old
in colours which are warm and cold.
As a means of payment and exchange
they are status symbols with a high range.
You can receive for them gold, spices and silk,
rather than bread, butter and milk.
Used until the 16th century in the Middle East
they were worn at rites of initiation and wedding feasts.
As an investment which was save,
as a present for people who were well-behaved.
With cobalt you can create true blue,
copper gives green a clue.
Manganese helps purple to be created,
iron assists yellow to be generated.
It is iron oxide that makes pearls brown,
the roots of a tree, but not its crown.
Glasblowers
Glass, Germanic ‘Glas‘
is a special class.
Shiny, gleaming, amber,
like the famous chamber.
Forest glassworks which were burning a lot of wood
could help
to melt
quite a lot of glass,
otherwise wood transport would be a farce.
Created between 1900 and 1950
Pigeon Egg Beads are translucent and nifty.
In Bohemia wedding pearls were found in triangular and
drop shape,
you can watch their manifold forms in many tapes.
Colourful, single coloured, with lines and cebra stripes
they were an asset for many hypes.
Germany’s Rocaille beads are bulled in glass tubes by hand
with a tinier diameter known both by sea and by land.
Wadi Natrun
Wadi Natrun is the gate
for sodium carbonate.
For glass production
as an action
1450 before the computation of time
next to the desert with salt rime
is Thebes or Luxor
as it was named before.
Venice/Murano
Millefiori (thousand flowers)
were not ours
100 years ago
with a profile that was low
they were transported to Africa
where they became a star.
The fear of the glass furnices’ fire and town’s destruction
triggered the fear that the art’s secret of beads’
production
was let out.
‘It is our pride’ they shout.
They were outsourced to the Isle of Murano
1295 was the anno.
In 1500 the Venetians invented beads
which leads
to a 12 point star moulds in blue-white-red
it could be found on rich people’s heads.
Glass discolouration by manganese oxide
hide the hard work it took to imitate Chinese porcelain
milk glass was the solution for every woman and man.
Meriam puts down the texts. She is content with her first text drafts which she will put the finishing touches to in the course of the afternoon.
Allgemeine Informationen
Als Wertanlage und Statussymbol
sind Handelsperlen von innen hohl.
Sexy Gestalt
mit Gehalt,
mehr als 1000 Jahre alt.
Sie können sie gebrauchen, sich an ihnen berauschen.
Sie können für sie viel Geld zahlen oder sie tauschen,
gegen Seide, Gewürze und Gold,
sei der Handelsgott Ihnen hold!
Getragen nicht nur bei Riten der Initiation
und schon
sind Sie bereit sie zu tragen für die Zeit zu zweit
bei der Hochzeit.
Bis zum 16. Jahrhundert nur im Vorderen Orient und
Mittelmeerraum,
danach waren Handelsperlen auch für Westafrika ein
Traum.
Mit Kobalt erzeugt man blau,
schöne Perlen für Mann und Frau.