第二步：装饰珠身。
   塑料瓶盖作为容器,装着其它颜色的粉状玻璃。添加数滴阿拉伯树胶,混合成糊状，作为有颜色的色料。

Step 2 - The Decoration
Using the plastic lids of small bottles containing powdered glass from previously ground coloured beads .. as containers, a few drops of diluted gum arabic are added from the kettle to a little of the coloured powder which is mixed into a paste. Saliva, said to have been used in older times, on its own or in conjunction with gum arabic .. is no longer used.
First using blue for the centre of the 'eye', the paste is applied with the tip of a wooden 'cocktail stick'. No time is seemingly needed for drying between forming the core and applying the various coloured decorations .. the colours neither smudge nor run.

将不同颜色的玻璃色料绘制到珠身。

A circle of red - from ground-up Moroccan Prosser beads - is drawn around the white.
The rest of the spaces on the sphere are filled in with yellow.
Black dots are applied over the yellow and the bead is ready to be left to dry for 8 hours before firing. Note that although the decoration using different colours was a continuous process .. none of the colours have smudged nor are any residues apparent on her fingers.

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