Islamic glass beads
(700-1450 AC)
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Combed & folded beads
Eye & layered beads
Mammeluk glass beads (1250-1450 AC) Murfia.
Unlike in the feather or combed beads, the zig-zag pattern in murfia beads is obtained through inserting alternating left and right spiralling "sugar-cane design" glass rods.
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