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Dzi bead
Dzi (pronounced “Zee”) is a Tibetan word to describe a patterned, usually agate bead of mainly cylindrical or tabular shape. In Chinese, it is known as Heaven’s Bead . The beads originate in the Tibetan cultural sphere. They may have etched symbols composed of circles, ovals, square, waves, stripes, lines and various other natural […]
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Draw plate
Draw plates are used to draw wire to make it thinner. They can also be used to draw tubes of wire (chenier). They come in many different sizes and shapes: round, square, oval, half-round and hexagonal for example. The plate has rows of holes drilled through it which go down in size by tiny […]
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Doming technique
The technique of doming (or dapping) is used to make spheres or hemispheres of metal. These are then made into items of jewelry. The metal is cut into a circle and annealed, pickled, and rinsed. The circle of metal is placed over an indent on the doming block, which is larger than the circle. […]
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Chevron bead
Chevron beads are special glass beads, the first specimens of this type were created by glass bead makers in Venice and Murano, Italy, towards the end of the 14th century. They may also be referred to as Rosetta, or star beads. The term rosetta first appeared in the inventory of the Barovier Glass works […]
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Centrifugal casting
Centrifugal casting or rotocasting is a casting technique which has application across a wide range of industrial and artistic applications:
* It is used as a means of casting small, detailed parts or jewelry. An articulated arm is free to spin around a vertical axle, which is driven by an electric […]
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Callaïs
Callaïs is the name of a green stone used for making beads by western European cultures of the later Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. It was described by Pliny the Elder (NH XXXVII.lvi.151) as being paler than lapis lazuli.
Its source was probably Brittany, near Locmariaquer where numerous turquoise items have been found, although this […]
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Beadwork patterns
Beadwork patterns come in a variety of styles and colors. Most Native American tribes have their own histories as to when they first used beads. Wampum, a type of shell used to decorate and adorn clothing, were also used in the eastern United States for trade in the early Colonial days.
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Beadwork
Beadwork is the art or craft of attaching beads to one another or to cloth using a needle and thread. Most beadwork takes the form of jewelry or other personal adornment, but beads are also used in wall hangings and sculpture.
Beadwork techniques are broadly divided into loom and off-loom weaving, stringing, bead embroidery, bead […]
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Bead weaving
Bead weaving using seed beads can be done on a loom. The beads are locked in between the warp threads by the weft threads. Although a heddle can be used as in ordinary weaving, the most common technique requires two passes of the weft thread. First, an entire row of beads is strung on […]
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Bead stringing
Bead stringing is the putting of beads on string.
It can range from simply sliding a single bead onto any thread-like medium (string, silk thread, leather thong, thin wire, multi-strand beading wire) to complex creations that have multiple strands or interwoven levels. The choice of stringing medium can be an important point in the overall […]
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