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2. Indo-Pacific beads - Wikipedia

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   Indo-Pacific beads are a type of mainly tube drawn glass beads which originated in the Indian subcontinent but are manufactured widely in Southeast Asia.These are usually 6mm in diameter, undecorated and come in various colours for example green, yellow, black, opaque red, etc.

3. Visual arts of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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   The widespread popularity of glass beads does not mean aboriginal bead making is dead. Perhaps the most famous Native bead is wampum, a cylindrical tube of quahog or whelk shell. Both shells produce white beads, but only parts of the quahog produce purple. These are ceremonially and politically important to a range of Northeastern Woodland ...

4. Glass bead making - Wikipedia

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   Lampworked dichroic glass bead showing thin film application Furnace glass beads. A variant of the wound glass bead making technique, and a labor-intensive one, is what is traditionally called lampworking. In the Venetian industry, where very large quantities of beads were produced in the 19th century for the African trade, the core of a ...

5. Imitation pearl - Wikipedia

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   Glass pearl is a glass bead dipped or sprayed with pearlescent material, or hollow glass bead filled with pearlescent material. One variation is the Majorica pearl. Wax-filled pearl simulants are hollow glass beads coated with essence d'orient and filled with wax. Variations of these wax-filled simulants, which are produced in slightly ...

6. Seed bead - Wikipedia

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   Two principal techniques are used to produce seed beads: the wound method and the drawn method. The wound method is the more-traditional technique, is more time-consuming, and is no longer used in modern bead production: in this technique, a chunk of glass known in glassmaking as a gather and composed mainly of silica is heated on an iron bar until molten.

7. Man Involved in Hockey Player's Death by Skate Blade Calls ...

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   The man involved in the death of hockey player Adam Johnson has spoken out about the incident for the first time via a crowdfunding request for help with his legal fees.

8. Glass in sub-Saharan Africa - Wikipedia

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   The production of beads from imported glass shards, cullet (scraps) and undesired glass beads has a lively presence in the history of Sub-Saharan Africa. Imported glass was either formed by melting such imported glass, potentially adding desired colorants, and then shaping the melt into a bead form; or, by grinding down the imported glass to ...

9. Beadboard vs. Wainscoting—Do You Know the Difference? - AOL

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   Beadboard refers to thin, narrow strips of wood (or a material that mimics the look of wood such as medium-density fiberboard, PVC, or vinyl) with a rounded “bead” edge that runs the length of ...