Bath and Body Works or The Body Shop
A wampums iconic white beads are indeed made from shells.
It depends. I have seen many clay african beads
There are too many variables to consider: the size/s of the beads; if they are all the same; the shape of the beads; what the beads are made of. For example, if all the beads are 1mm, you'd have 39,730 inches of beads whch is 62.7% of a mile.
Plastic beads are made out of plastic. Sometimes they are coloured to add an appealing effect.
Beads are made from the shell of pearls and abalone. They can be thin and flat or rounded. These beads are usually very iridescent and colorful.
No they are made in thialand
Pony beads, in the United States, were first made out of bone and used to decorate the horses of Native American Indians. It was a way to distinguish one horse from another in terms of ownership, when the beads were painted. It is not known exactly when this practice started.
Different beads are made in different shapes. Many beads are spherical, some are cylindrical. Realistically beads can be created in almost any shape, and some are made in complex forms. Normally, beads are pierced in some fashion to allow the bead to be strung as part of jewelry.
plastic
Murano glass beads are hand made, just as the name implies, in Murano, Italy. The beads have been hand produced there since the early fourteenth century.
Hindu prayer beads are called 'Mala.' They commonly have 32 or 108 beads and are traditionally made with Rudraksha seads.