Glass bead making
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Glass bead making has long traditions, with the oldest known beads dating over 3,000 years. People have been making beads out of glass since at least Ancient Roman times. Perhaps the earliest glass-li
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Lampwork glass beads
Lampworked dichroic glass bead showing thin film application
Furnace glass beads
Seed bead
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Seed beads or rocailles are uniformly shaped, spheroidal beads ranging in size from under a millimeter to several millimeters. Seed bead is also a generic term for any small bead. Usually rounded in s
Glass bead making
…melting the holes closed. They were then sieved into sizes, and, usually, strung onto hanks for sale. The most common type of modern glass bead is the seed bead, a small type of bead typically less than 6 mm (0.24 in), traditionally monochrome, and manufactured in very large quantities. They are a modern example…
A collection of small beads
Elephant and zebra in seed beads
A selection of glass seed beads. The tiny beads in the packet at bottom centre are size 15. On the right are three packets of Delica beads size 11.
Plastic cylinder beads