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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.
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Download as PDF; Printable version; ... with fish scale covered glass beads in place of pearls or conch ... 8.89 by 7.93 by 0.31 centimetres (3.50 in × 3.12 ...
Murano beads are intricate glass beads influenced by Venetian glass artists. Since 1291, Murano glassmakers have refined technologies for producing beads and glasswork such as crystalline glass, enamelled glass (smalto), glass with threads of gold ( aventurine ), multicolored glass (millefiori), milk glass (lattimo) and imitation gemstones made ...
Glass beads composed of soda lime glass are essential for providing retroreflectivity in many kinds of road surface markings. [1] Retroreflectivity occurs when incident light from vehicles is refracted within glass beads that are imbedded in road surface markings and then reflected back into the driver's field of view. [ 2 ]
Wordle Plays: 5.3 billion Wordle The 1,000th Wordle puzzle ran in March, a milestone for the popular game where players tend to stick to a formula, with 2.8 million people using the same starting ...
A selection of glass beads Merovingian bead Trade beads, 18th century Trade beads, 18th century. 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.
The term Kiffa bead, named after one of the old bead making centres of Kiffa in Mauritania, was coined by United States bead collectors during the 1980s. According to Peter Francis, Jr., the making of powder glass beads in West Africa may date back a few hundred years, and to possibly 1200 CE in Mauritania.