Red is our most difficult color, unpredictable. It is a color which changes in the fire. The transparent red which we use in our gold foil bead and silver foil beads is made with a transparent cane the color of straw. So looking at a cane, it's hard to tell if it will be a bello rosso (beautiful red) or a more ruby, garnet color. The beadmakers know the glass reacts differently every day. They say the glass has a mind of its own and red's is definitely tempermental!