Bead Basics is divided into four sections. Click on any live (underlined blue) link.

Materials

Manufacture

Trade

Use

Glass

Glass, Wound

Origins

Wearing

Faience

Glass, Drawn

Local

Beadwork

Stones

Glass, Other

Regional

Status

Shells

Glass, Sintered

Global

Religion and Superstition

Metal

Shell

Traders

Heirlooms

Plastic

Stone, etc.

Samples

Tools

Natural Materials

Shapes

 

Counting, Mnemonic Devices

Why Beads?

Bead Research

Loss or Toss?

Fakes and Frauds

Also read Beads and Where They Have Led Me

Bead Basics is an electronic book, Copyright © 1998 Peter Francis, Jr. Permission is granted to download a single copy. For multiple copies of the book or any part thereof permission must be granted in writing by the publisher.

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