Gathering the white glass from a small crucible full of hot white glass that is sitting in the back of the glory hole underneath the hatch I'm lifting with my left hand.

Closing the hatch in the glory hole as the white glass cools a bit.
I'll take one or two more gathers of the white glass..

 Marvering  it out, which is smoothing and shaping the glass on a steel plate by rolling the gather of glass back and forth on the steel.

After re-heating the white glass in the glory hole (glowing hot device in front of me in the pic) I blow a bubble into the gather of glass. The bubble eventually becomes the hole in the middle of the bead.

Dipping the white glass with the bubble in the middle into a pot full of hot colored glass in one of the glass furnaces.

"Tailing off" the colored glass, or letting the extra hot glass drip back into the furnace while you spin the gather of glass.

Back to the marver, where we shape up the colored glass we just picked up on top of the white glass.

The next few pics show a few different things (out of hundreds) that you can do with the hot gather of glass to get different shaped and surface textures on the finished glass beads.

This is how you would put  a ribbed texture on the outside of a gather. That texture would stay there even when the cane is pulled out.

If you wanted square beads you would start with a square gather. This one is not quite shaped up yet but you get the idea.

The glass has to be kept hot, and at the same heat  throughout the glass. This means a lot of reheating it in the glory hole and marvering to keep it in shape and cool the exterior.

The next two pics are close-ups of reheating

The tip of the gather of hot glass is cooled by dipping it in water to harden it. This hardened part is clamped in a special tool to hold it and then the cane is pulled out.You can see the tool opened up in the pics up above.

The first cut, cutting the cane from what's left of the gather on the blowpipe.

Cutting up the rest of the cane. The wooden cradle holds the cane so it's easier to put it in the annealer.
An annealer is something like a kiln that can bring the temperature of the glass down to room temperature very slowly. This is necessary to relieve all the strains in the glass.

shoveling the canes into the annealer

Straightening them out

When the canes are cool they are hand cut into individual beads on a diamond saw.

The final step is tumbling the rough cut glass beads in a series of decreasing size abrasives to round and polish them.