Beadwork
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Date: 2021-12-05

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Beadwork is the art or craft of attaching beads to one another by stringing them onto a thread or thin wire with a sewing or beading needle or sewing them to cloth.
Beads are produced in a diverse range of materials, shapes, and sizes, and vary by the kind of art produced.
Most often, beadwork is a form of personal adornment （e.g. jewelry）, but it also commonly makes up other artworks.
Beadwork in progress on a bead weaving loom.
Black, orange and transparent seed beads are being used to make a bracelet.
Beadwork techniques are broadly divided into several categories, including loom and off-loom weaving, stringing, bead embroidery, bead crochet, bead knitting, and bead tatting.
A string of blue faience beads from north Lisht, a village in the Memphite region of Egypt, c.
1802–1450 B.C. The art of creating and utilizing beads is ancient, and ostrich shell beads discovered in Africa can be carbon-dated to 10,000 BC. Faience beads, a type of ceramic created by mixing powdered clays, lime, soda,
and silica sand with water until a paste forms, then molding it around a stick or straw and firing until hard, were notably used in ancient Egyptian jewelry from the First Dynasty （beginning in the early Bronze age） onward.
Faience and other ceramic beads with vitrified quartz coatings predate pure glass beads.
Beads and work created with them were found near-ubiquitously across the ancient world, often made of locally available materials.
For example, the Athabaskan peoples of Alaska used tusk shells （scaphopod mollusks）, which are naturally hollow, as beads and incorporated them into elaborate jewelry.
Beadwork has historically been used for religious purposes, as good luck talismans, for barter and trade, and for ritual exchange.
Polar bear made of pearl beads, an example of a modern beadwork project Today, beadwork is commonly practiced by jewe...