Why did it break?

[2tumblingdragonz]

Hi, I knocked the container with my finished beads onto the carpet. I don't know why these 2 broke. They were properly annealed.

I thought I could have stepped on the critter and broken the ear off but I didn't think I stepped on her, I'm wearing sneakers on the carpet, maybe they rolled into the wrought iron chair leg???But if they were annealed shouldn't they have survived?
They were cleaned and examined and even played with a little after annealing.
This is the first time I'm uploading a picture so I hope it works.
I'm so bummed, I loved that little creature and wanted to send her to BOC.
The join looked melted in...the other bead was a frit test bead.

thanks
Namaste
Rowyn

[houptdavid]

Nope, even though they are annealed, It's still glass and can break.
I've seen beads bounce off concrete with no problem, and beads stored in a box and shaken around moving come out broken.
Any appendage is going to be prone to breaking off.

[mandyjw]

What David said, also remember that if you don't properly give you bead a final heat back up to glowing and then flash the bead through the flame to slowly cool from glowing before placing in the kiln or fiber blanket (the fiber blanket requires you to be nearly perfect at this) the kiln won't heal cracks that have already begun to develop, it prevents them.