what do you do with filigrana?

[Samyel]

For Christmas, I got several rods of filigrana, in different colours. They're pretty and all, but I don't really know what to do with them. Anyone have filigrana stuff they can show me?

[cghipp]

I don't have a pic for you, but you can use it to make great twisted canes, or putt it into a stringer to get a line that won't bleed into the background.

Courtney

[SL Beads]

You can fold the rod several times into itself in the flame and pull it to make a stamen stringer. Go to Corina's book and see how she uses them to make beautiful and elegant hearts. Sachiko

[DesertDreamer]

Filigrana is the traditional glass for latticino. You can make simple two-rod twisties, or complex ribbons. It's all about how you line up the rods and pull them out.

Here's a bead with fragments (about 1/2" long) of black latticino twisties

[sislonski]

These beads are made with filigrana glass rods. They are hollow beads.

shari

[Kevan]

My husband uses it for hollows all the time. I rarely use it.

[dogmaw]

I like it for fish fins.

[Samyel]

I'll have to try that stringer stuff. The hollows look amazing, but I haven't the first clue how to make hollow beads. I should probably master just making a round bead that isn't lumpy first, huh. :)