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  2. Seed bead - Wikipedia

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    Seed beads or rocailles [1] [2] 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 shape, seed beads are most commonly used for loom and off-loom bead weaving. They may be used for simple stringing, or as spacers between ...

  3. 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. Beads represent some of the earliest ...

  4. Glass bead making - Wikipedia

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    The beads again are rolled in hot sand to remove flashing and soften seam lines. By making canes (the glass rods fed into the machine) striped or otherwise patterned, the resulting beads can be more elaborately colored than seed beads. One "feed" of a hot rod might result in 10–20 beads, and a single operator can make thousands in a day.

  5. Japamala - Wikipedia

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    A japamala, jaap maala, or simply mala ( Sanskrit: माला; mālā, meaning ' garland ' [ 1]) is a loop of prayer beads commonly used in Indian religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism. It is used for counting recitations ( japa) of mantras, prayers or other sacred phrases. It is also worn to ward off evil, to count ...

  6. Beadwork - Wikipedia

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    Beadwork. Beadwork on the ceremonial dress of a Datooga woman. Beadwork is the art or craft of attaching beads to one another by stringing them onto a thread or thin wire with a sewing or beading needle or sewing them to cloth. [1] Beads are produced in a diverse range of materials, shapes, and sizes, and vary by the kind of art produced.

  7. Bead weaving - Wikipedia

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    Bead weaving. Bead weaving (or beadweaving) is a set of techniques for weaving sheets and objects of seed beads. Threads are strung through and/or around the beads to hold them together. It can be done either on a loom or using one of a number of off-loom stitches.

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