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BeadforLife is a 501(c)(3), non-profit organization. [1] that empowers women living in poverty to earn income by creating jewelry from recycled paper beads. [2]These beads educate people around the world around the needs and conditions of those living in poverty.
The message linked to a website that featured a picture of the group performing live and a place for fans to enter their e-mail address to get updates on the reunion. Entering that information unlocked an archival video for the song "Get on the Snake" from Soundgarden's second studio album, 1989's Louder Than Love. [62]
In Islam, prayer beads are referred to as misbaha (Arabic: مِسْبَحَة, romanized: misbaḥah), subha, or as tasbih in reference to the prayers they are used with. They typically possess 99 regularly sized beads (corresponding to the names of God in Islam) with separators of two smaller beads, splitting the loop into three sections of 33 ...
Greek worry beads generally have an odd number of beads, often one more than a multiple of four (e.g. (4×4)+1, (5×4)+1, and so on) or a prime number (usually 17, 19 or 23), and usually have a head composed of a fixed bead (παπάς "priest"), a shield (θυρεός) to separate the two threads and help the beads to flow freely, and a tassel ...
Modern beaded flowers, yellow made in the French beading technique and pink in the Victorian beading technique. Today, beadwork is commonly practiced by jewelers, hobbyists, and contemporary artists; artists known for using beadwork as a medium include Liza Lou, Ran Hwang, Hew Locke, Jeffery Gibson, and Joyce J. Scott.
Bead stringing is the putting of beads on string. A pair of beaded necklaces. It can range from simply sliding a single bead onto any thread-like medium (string, silk thread, leather thong, thin wire, multi-stranded beading wire, or a soft, flexible wire) to complex creations that have multiple strands or interwoven levels. The choice of ...
The Society of Bead Researchers is a scholarly association for those studying beads and beadmaking in the context of history, ethnology and archaeology worldwide. The society was founded in 1981 [ 1 ] by Peter Francis, Jr. , director of the Center for Bead Research in Lake Placid, New York, [ 2 ] Elizabeth J. Harris and Jamey D. Allen.
Trade beads from ca. 1740, found in a Wichita village site in present-day Oklahoma Nineteenth-century European trade beads found in Alaska Chugach woven spruce-root hat. Trade beads are beads that were used as a medium of barter within and amongst communities. They are considered to be one of the earliest forms of trade between members of the ...