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  2. Wampum - Wikipedia

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    One 17th-century Seneca wampum belt featured beads almost 2.5 inches (65 mm) long. [1] Women artisans traditionally made wampum beads by rounding small pieces of whelk shells, then piercing them with a hole before stringing them. Wooden pump drills with quartz drill bits and steatite weights were used to drill the shells. The unfinished beads ...

  3. Bead stringing - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Bead - Wikipedia

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    A bead is a small, decorative object that is formed in a variety of shapes and sizes of a material such as stone, bone, shell, glass, plastic, wood, or pearl and with a small hole for threading or stringing. Beads range in size from under 1 millimeter (0.039 in) to over 1 centimeter (0.39 in) in diameter.

  5. Japamala - Wikipedia

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    A notable feature of Tendai school's prayer beads is the use of flat beads called "soroban beads" for the main beads (while most of the other sects use spherical beads). [2] For the Shingon school, they use a red string as the main string for the 108 beads and white tassels for the counter beads.

  6. Prayer beads - Wikipedia

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    Beads are among the earliest human ornaments and ostrich eggshell beads in Africa date to 10,000 BC. [1] Over the centuries various cultures have made beads from a variety of material from stone and shells to clay. [1] The English word bead derives from the Old English noun bede which means a prayer.

  7. String (structure) - Wikipedia

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    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-stranded beading wire, or a soft, flexible wire) to complex creations that have multiple strands or interwoven levels. The choice of stringing medium can be an ...

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