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  2. Seed bead - Wikipedia

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    The range of seed beads in most modern seed bead work covers the sizes 6/0, 8/0, 11/0, 12/0, 13/0 and 15/0. Sizes 6/0, 8/0 and 11/0 are often used in beaded knitting, as well as bead knitting. The extremely small class of seed beads smaller than 15/0 have not been in production since the 1890s and any in existence are usually considered ...

  3. Abrus precatorius - Wikipedia

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    The plant is best known for its seeds, which are used as beads and in percussion instruments, and which are toxic because of the presence of abrin. Ingestion of a single seed, well chewed, can be fatal to both adults and children. [2] The plant is native to Asia and Australia. [1] It has a tendency to become weedy and invasive where it has been ...

  4. Koelreuteria bipinnata - Wikipedia

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    Koelreuteria bipinnata is commonly used as a focal point in landscape design in regions where they thrive; it is often used as a tree at street, highways, parking lots, for shade, garden or specimen tree. The seeds are used as beads in necklaces and the flowers can yield a yellow dye.

  5. Category:Decorative fruits and seeds - Wikipedia

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    This category collects plants whose fruits or seeds are used for decoration. This often includes pods, cones and nuts of large proportions and/or extravagant shape. Many drift seeds are used in this fashion by seaside communities. Also, many seeds of ovoid and round shapes, often with complex surfaces, are used for making prayer beads.

  6. Adenanthera pavonina - Wikipedia

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    The beauty of the seeds has led to them being used as beads for jewellery. The botanist Edred Corner stated that in India, the seeds have been used as units of weight for fine measures, of gold for instance, throughout recorded history because the seeds are known to be almost identical weights to each other. [ 8 ]

  7. Leucaena - Wikipedia

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    The seeds (jumbie beans) can be used as beads. Leucaena planted for firewood on an area of 120 km 2 (46 sq mi) will yield an energy equivalent of 1 million barrels of oil per year. Anthelmintic medicines are made from extracts of Leucaena seeds in Sumatra, Indonesia. [5] Some species (namely Leucaena leucocephala) have edible fruits (as unripe ...

  8. 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.

  9. Agriculture in Texas - Wikipedia

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    Texas has a long history of wine production. The sunny and dry climate of the major winemaking regions in the state have drawn comparison to Portuguese wines, in addition to other regions in Europe like Spain, France, and Italy. [13] Some of the earliest recorded Texas wines were produced by Spanish missionaries in the 1650s near El Paso. Texas ...

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