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Jewellery Beads
Jewellery
beads are really any type of bead that is used in the jewellery,
making process. Beads, whether they be glass, wood, plastic or
shell are often used for a multitude of projects, from home hobby
use to garment decoration, Therefore the term jewellery beads
is more likely to be used as a search or descriptive phrase to
differentiate decorative jewellery beads, from cheap plastic
imitations used for childrens crafts.
Jewellery beads vary from lampwork styles to the more uniform
pressed bead and can be decorated in many different way. Those
made from silver of gold foil will always command a higher price
because of the high price of the raw material. Similarly the
country of origin and the type of manufacture will also have
a huge bearing of the price of the jewellery beads purchased.
Jewellery
making in the UK has been a very popular hobby in the UK and
is still continuing to grow. This can explain the growing use
of the term jewellery beads to describe beads sold or best suited
to the use in jewellery making.
One of the main ways the term jewellery beads can be useful is
the way it differentiates the art of jewellery making and the
another hobby know more accurately as beadwork. Beadwork is used
to refer to the art of embroidery or picking up fine beads with
a needle to create intricate designs. Similarly bead weaving
or bead lace are skills that fall under a similar umbrella using
very small beads know as rocailles or seed beads. Jewellery beads
are usually much larger and so here the term jewellery making
beads comes very much into its own to help distinguish between
the two types of beads on offer from many different suppliers,
for various arts and crafts.
Jewellery beads can be used with rocailles or seed beads to great
effect in the jewellery making design process. They are useful
on head pins to stop larger jewellery beads from slipping and
for spacing designs. Because of their smaller size many hundreds
of beads are usually included in a pack and therefore they do
make excellent spacer beads.
Another great way to space jewellery beads is to use many of
the metal beads on offer today. Care should be taken when sourcing
these beads are some beads may contain a mixture of cheap metals,
but may be titled as silver. For example The Tibetan Silver sold
out of the China market today is not in fact silver but a zinc
alloy compound. The same can be said with many developing countries
and therefore you could find yourself buying an alloy bead when
you are in fact purchasing a native silver. This is a term used
in the country of origin to describe their own brand of metal
jewellery bead.
Asking your supplier is a good way to see if they know what their
Jewellery beads are made of and if they know how the beads are
made.
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