The best kinds of beads to use when making jewelry can be answered on several different points. Creatively, use whatever you like.
Jewelry is an art form, it has been with us since the beginning of the human race, people have decorated themselves with beautiful and unique objects that represent something special to them.
What is the message you want to convey with the jewelry you make? Use what you decide would get the message across most effectively. From a design aspect, using what is traditionally appropriate for that design, ie., glass seed beads for native American beadwork, is a good place to start, and then incorporating something a little different that you think would look good in the design will give it originality.
From a marketing perspective, semiprecious and precious stone beads are most popular, for example chalcedony briolettes, amethyst, ruby, tourmaline faceted beads, etc. While they cost more than using glass, they also demand a higher retail price for the finished piece. If you are going to spend the time to make jewelry to sell, make quality jewelry using fine materials and you will make more profit in the long run.
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
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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.
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.
Mardi Gras beads are made by first manufacturing a plastic mold. Plastic is injected into the mold, then the color is added. The beads are then allowed to dry and mold is removed. They are manufactured in China.
No they are just bracelets made out of beads nothing more nothing less.