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- Bovis Bead Co. - Distributor of French glass beads, old time color seed beads, white heart beads, regular color seed beads plus opaque beads and transparent beads.
- Fireweed Bead Company - Czech and Japanese seed beads, vintage and new glass beads, bead kits and handmade beaded eyeglass leashes.
- Caravan Beads - Retail and wholesale beads and beading supplies, Miyuki Delicas, triangle beads, twisted bugles and other Japanese seed beads.
- Bead Street - Retail store offering beads, beading supplies, bead curtains, gifts and jewelry by local designers. Information on classes and beading parties.
- Bead-by-Bead Designs - Chevron seed bead or silver wirework designs enhanced with crystals, by Ania.
- Bead Crafts By Pearl - Hand-made Christmas bead crafts, angels, and power bead bracelets.
- Beads, Beading, Beaded - Hand-loomed, custom-designed, graphed glass and seed bead jewelry. Three dimensional and realistic.
- Rings and Things - Informational page listing various facts about bead colors, bead sizes, seed beads and birthstones.
- LaLa's Jewels - Peruvian animal beads and figure beads, beading supplies, lampwork beads.
- Auntie's Beads - Beads, alphabet beads, findings, tools, and instruction books for your beading projects. Quantity discounts for stores and designers.
Wikipedia Articles
- Anglican prayer beads - Also known as "the Anglican rosary," and sometimes as "Christian prayer beads" or "ecumenical prayer beads," Anglican prayer beads are a loop of strung beads which Anglicans and other Christians use as a focus for prayer. Anglican prayer beads were developed in the mid-1980s by Episcopalians participating in a study group dealing with methods of prayer.
- Slave beads - Slave beads (often called Trade beads) were otherwise decorative glass beads used between the 16th and 20th century as a currency to exchange for goods, services and slaves (hence the name). Made to ease the passage of European explorers and then traders mainly across the African continents, the beads were made throughout Europe ...
- Aggry beads - Aggry beads (also spelt 'aggrey beads') are decorated glass beads, used by West Africans as ornaments. They are used in necklaces, bracelets and other jewelery.
- Baily's beads - As the moon "grazes" by the Sun during a solar eclipse, the rugged lunar limb topography allows beads of sunlight to shine through. This effect is called Baily's beads, in honor of Francis Baily who first noted the phenomenon in 1836.
- Love beads - Love beads are one of the traditional accoutrements of hippies. They consist of one or more long strings of beads, frequently handmade, worn about the neck by both genders.