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Glass Beads
There is still some production of beads from natural materials, particularly in the American Southwest, where
bead makers use shell, coral, and turquoise for his he necklaces that are principally sold to a non-Indian market.
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Networks of trade and exchange are ancient in the Americas, and the adoption of glass beads and other exotic trade materials by American Indians created conditions for a realignment of traditional exchange relationships. Once beads
became necessities rather than luxuries, Indians were tied irretrievably to a network of reciprocal exchanges with Europeans.
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Tribally distinct styles have largely given way to regional styles, with a few exceptions. Bead artists are embracing visual influences from many sources including popular culture, advertising logos, movies, comic books, and, more recently, computer-generated designs.
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Typical work consisted of thin coils and chains of linked and plaited wire, and thin foil formed into petals and rosettes. Stamping and enamelling were common. Free use was also made of gold granulation and filigree. Inlaid stones were rare.
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The techniques remained fundamentally the same as in the preceding period; embossed or stamped plates were the basic element in the work; granulation continued and was developed in Etruria to an extraordinary degree of refinement.
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In the succeeding Hellenistic phase, pendant vases, winged victories, cupids, and doves became common motifs. At the same time, an important innovation was the introduction of large coloured stones, especially garnets, at the centre of designs. This scheme was developed by the Romans, who multiplied the variety of stones and set them in rows bordered with pearls.
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A fashionable form of jewellery was the fibula, a brooch resembling a safety pin. Rings were extremely popular and at the height of the empire were often worn on all ten fingers. Exotic ornaments made of amber were also in great demand.
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For a designer or mail order catalogue buyer, it means that you can make (produce) beads (multiples) of the same color, style, and size (a minimum tolerance of 1 mm in length or width. These beads must be of a high quality to demand top dollar as a hand made bead. The beads must have a nice finish around the ends, without any rough edges that will cut threads or even tiger tail (you remember that stuff we used before Soft flex wire?) You should not have to file the bead openings to achieve this.
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For a bead store owner, it means that you can come up with a few more beads just like the ones the customer purchased and made up a necklace, and now her friend wants a necklace too. More than once, I have had to go back and make additional beads because the store owner ran out, and the customer had changed the design and needed more beads than originally purchased to complete her piece.
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Recently when I told another bead maker that I would be making beads for Gems new Gallery Catalogue, she rolled her eyes and said, "oh no, production work!" She made it sound as if I had received a jail sentence instead of a prized contract to make beads.
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Beads mass-made in factories cheaply imitate those from India and Europe. Korea Factories stamp many beads from sheet metal.The Philippines The center of a thriving jewelry industry, the Philippines produces beads made in shell, horn and bone. The react maker, paid a meager amount, works from home and intermediaries deliver raw materials and collect the beads weekly. Various types of coral are fished off the coast and mother-of-pearl is carved or cut and inlaid as a decoration on beads. Java The rudraksha nut is used in Hindu prayer beads.
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