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- Burreedo Beads - Nancy Reed's handcrafted, kiln annealed beads made from Italian soda lime glass, also called Moretti or Effetre glass. Site offers bead sets, earrings, bracelets, and necklaces.
- Bead Island - Offers colorful handcrafted polymer clay beads.
- Tillerman Beads - Handcrafted flamework beads by British glass artist Mike Poole.
- The Beaded Calf - Offering handcrafted beaded jewelry.
- Shanigans' Bead Shenanigans - Beadwork books and patterns, handcrafted beaded jewelry, beading classes, copyright quiz, all with Alaskan flavor.
- Bergamini Beads - Specializing in furnace glass beads and blown glass bead jewelry designed by Carrie Mathews. Classes are offered throughout the northeast.
- Spun Glass Designs - Artistic expressions in glass. Uniquely handcrafted beads and bead sets. Express your own creativity by using these beads for your own formal or casual jewelry designs.
- Bureau Creek Gallery - Handcrafted beaded jewelry featuring necklaces, earrings, bracelets and brooches.
- Embroidered Soul - Handcrafted beads and pendant jewelry imported from Greece and Bulgaria.
- Earbobs - Handcrafted earrings, bracelets, necklaces and rings with glass beads, crystals and silver wire.
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.
- Kiffa beads - Kiffa beads are rare powder glass beads named after the Mauritanian city of Kiffa, where French ethnologist R.Mauny documented them first in 1949.
- Murano beads - Murano beads are intricate glass beads influenced by Venetian glass artists