"My quest for knowledge led me to the craft of making glass beads."

Genea Crivello-Knable, felt she had done just about everything with making jewelry and decided it was time to try to learn something new.   Her quest for knowledge led her to the craft of making glass beads.  Genea has been making beads for three (3) years.

Before making glass beads, Genea dabbled in many art forms such as drawing, painting, fibers, metal smith, and print making.  With jewelry making as her most recent form of artistic expression, Genea felt that lampworking was the most logical direction to go, and her main focus is now on making glass beads. 

Books have been the main source of instruction for Genea with inspiration from many artists, but particularly Corina Tettinger. Corina’s attention to detail on such small beads amazed her.  Genea finds the process of working with silver, gold and palladium sheets, as well as fuming with gold and silver very interesting, although she has not learned these techniques yet. 

Genea’s mother and sister support her wholeheartedly, displaying her beads in jewelry designs, and in their private collections.

Moretti, Lauscha, Vetrofond and Kugler are among the glass Genea uses to make her beads on her Hot Head torch.  For now, Genea finds that using her hot head in her apartment is the most economical and practical.  She makes both focal and bead sets, but lately has focused more on the focals.  Genea says that the use of her creation station “made my bead making so much easier,” and she highly recommends it.