Bead and Jewelry Supplies
Buying bead and jewelry supplies can get out of hand quite quickly. Ask me, I know. Have you ever gone to a bead store to "just look around"? Yeah, me too.
Bead and Jewelry-making Glossary
If you're just getting into beadwork and jewelry-making, you're bound to come across a few confusing words.
Bead jewelry has been adopted by cultures around the world for centuries. Bead jewelry was one of the earliest forms of jewelry utilized by the Native Americans and created through a process known as bead weaving.
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In the jewelry and bead world the word "amber" covers a multitude of beauties. Not all amber is amber, there's copal, reconstituted, reins of every sort including plastic, and mixes of all of the above.
Bead Shapes Glossary
Not everyone uses the same words when describing jewelry components, but a "rondelle" by any other name still looks as beautifully strung! ...
Bead Shapes & Sizes
This is by no means a complete list of the possibilities of the types of beads used in rosary making. These are just some of our favorites,
and give some good examples of the most popular beads.
BEAD SET:
The same beading technique may be used on a ring in which the diamonds are spaced slightly apart. In this instance the gold work is much more of a statement and a design element.
Glass Bead Dangles on Silver Bracelets
Glass Bead Dangle Earrings
Terry uses top quality jeweler's nylon as her stringing medium of choice for pearls.
3. Add a bead
and flatten a crimp on the opposite side of the bead.
For tight fit, hang the bead on the tigertail with one hand while flattening with pliers with the other- letting gravity do the work! ...
Bead Reamers: Sometimes bead holes may not be cleaned properly by the manufacturers or have small untidy bits sticking to the edges or the hole maybe too small for the wire to enter - for this purpose the bead reamer is helpful.
Bead Cap - used to give further enhancing decoration and/or protection to beads, either at one or both ends of the bead. Can also be used to finish multi-strands in earrings, necklaces, bracelets.
Bead tip Another word for callotte.
Beading cone A fashionable way to end a multi-stranded necklace. The metal cone covers the ends of the strands, which are tied together in a knot inside the cone. Buy Sterling Silver Beading Cones ...
Bead Charts
Inch Charts & Bead Size Rulers
The Psychology of Color
What colored gemstones do you gravitate to? ...
bead nucleation The use of a shell bead, usually spherical, implanted in the oyster to stimulate the growth of a cultured pearl, and forming the center of the pearl.
Bead and Bright set: This is a technique whereby the gemstone is mounted in a well in the metal which is surrounded by beads formed by cutting away portions of the surrounding metal.
Bead: A small, usually round, object with a hole pierced through it to be strung as a necklace, bracelet, etc. Beads are commonly made from stone, shell, glass, or plastic. Beaded Jewelry
Belle Epoque: See Edwardian.
Bead setting: A setting in which the prongs are formed (raised) by an engraving tool to secure the stone in a setting. These prongs are then rounded and pushed over the edge of a stone with a beading tool.
Bead Cap: A metal ornament, sometimes filigree that is placed on a glass or stone bead to cover any roughness or damage around the drilled hole. Also serves to accentuate the beads. Photo and additional information.
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Bead A hollow gemstone, usually round, designed to be strung.
Beryllium Treatment A form of heat treatment for sapphire that adds the element beryllium to the heating process.
Bead Setting
A method of securing a facetted stone. A small burr of metal is raised with a graver and worked to the edge of the stone. This burr is then burnished with a concave tipped punch into a small ball over the girdle of the stone.
Bead - on a tumbler, the rounded edge that results when excess glass is burned off.
[Bead nucleation process: Image courtesy of Dr. Jill Banfield]
The composition and structure of this nacre is essentially identical to that which forms under natural conditions.
eye bead
The "evil eye" or malocchio bead is the oldest known bead pattern. They are worn for protection from evil and to attract and promote good fortune.
Easy Bead and Metal Jewelry
If you are interested in starting to make your own jewelry, all you need is some wire (copper or sterling silver are good), some beads and a pair of rosary pliers (have rounded tips and cutters built in).
Seed bead: Mass produced tiny glass or plastic beads made by slicing tubes into tiny, evenly spaced pieces. This makes them oblong in shape, rather than round, and flat on the ends.
Gold Bead Necklaces
Multi-strand gold necklaces are youthful and attractive. They offer a fun way of layering simple gold chains or gold bead necklaces while keeping the layers at the same comfortable length.
Glass bead
A type of bead, mad eof glass, transparent, translucent or opaque, and smooth or faceted, including beads of coloured, colourless, millefiori, enamelled, gilded or iridescent glass, being solid or hollow, ...
Crimp Bead
Small, soft metal beads that are squeezed shut to secure loops of threading material fasteners onto clasps.
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Bugle Bead
Bugle Bead is a style of bead that is thin and long, usually made of multicolored glass.
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BUGLE BEAD
A bugle bead is a long, thin, tube-shaped glass bead.
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Drop Bead Bracelet
A bracelet that features dangling beaded stations.
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Mellon Bead
A hollow and ribbed bead popular in the Etruscan period and in the 1930's
Memento Mori
Jewel that is a reminder of death ...
Captive Bead Rings("CBR")
A type of body jewelry ring where a bead is held in a section of the ring by the rings pressure. See side column, or our catalog for a picture.
Bead Crimper
Also called crimping pliers, this tool is used to close and secure bead crimps. The lower jaw crimps the beads, while the grooves in the upper jaw folds and tightens the crimp.
bead stringing
wire
Highly flexible, multi-stranded stainless steel wire like Soft Flex and Soft Touch are used for stringing beads. These wire products are resistant to breaking due to the sawing action of the beads on the stringing material.
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Bead Setting: A variety of gemstone setting in which the clamps over the edge of the stone are formed by pressing into the metal a punch which has a hemispherical hollow, which forms the bead.
BEAD SETTING A method of setting stones even with the surface of a metal by raising beads from the metal itself. The beads act as prongs to secure the stones.
BEAD - A spherical object, with or without facets, distinguished by a hole drilled through the stone, usually on center.
BIWA PEARL - A mantle-tissue, nucleated, freshwater cultured pearl from Lake Biwa, Japan. Properly called a freshwater pearl.
bead (n) a small object, usually pierced, which is pierced for the purpose of stringing to form or to embellish items of jewellery.
Bead Setting
A style of setting where the small prongs that hold the stone are made with a beading tool
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Bead
A stone cut in the shape of a small sphere.
Beryl
A lightly coloured mineral which when transparent and dark green is called emerald. When blue in colour, it's called aquamarine.
Bead - A drilled stone designed to be strung.
Briolette - A tear-drop shaped stone with facets all around. This type of stone makes a nice pendant or earrings.
Cushion - Indicates a rectangular shape.
Bead
Diamonds are sometimes drilled for threading as beads.
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bead
A bead is any gemstone, metal, glass, or other material--usually round--with a hole pierced through it so that it can be strung on cord or wire.
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seed bead - Small round glass beads available in several sizes and a wide variety of colors.
semi-precious stone - Any stone suitable for use in jewelry that is not a diamond, ruby, sapphire, or emerald.
Bead Setting
A decorative setting in which stones are set evenly with the metal surface and secured by small metal bead-like prongs.
Bugle Bead: A long and thin glass bead that is tubular.
Bulla: A Roman pendant worn around the neck that contained a good luck charm. It was usually round and worn by the Roman youth until adulthood.
Captive bead ring - is a curved, almost closed ring of metal that is closed by a bead or ball held in place by pressure. CBRs may be used in navel piercing, brow piercing, ear piercing and lip piercing among others.
A crimp bead is a soft, metal bead through which string (for a bracelet or necklace) is threaded; the crimp bead can be squeezed shut with a pliers to secure the end loops of the threading material fasteners onto the clasps.
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A disk or bead that fits over an earring post and holds it securely in place.
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Nugget: A bead or stone that is unshaped.
Oiling: A technique used to seal a gemstone from water loss or to fill in tiny cracks on the surface of emeralds, improving their clarity.
The humble bead was probably the first gemstone cut used by man, dating back several thousand years.
A free form bead, pearl, or stone, often created synthetically in costume jewelry
Baroque pearls
Pearls that have an irregular shape.
Irritant: The bead nucleus, tissue implant, or other substance, implanted into mollusks in order to produce pearls.
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Karat: The standard measure of gold purity wherein one karat is 1/24th pure, meaning 24 k gold is pure gold.
Captive bead ring: Circular piece of body jewelry with a bead connecting both ends of the ring. Also referred to as "captured bead ring". See also BCR.
Basket - A fancy setting with numerous side piercings to provide a lacy or basket-look appearance
Bead - A stone cut in the shape of a small sphere
Belcher chain - Made up of links that are round or oval and uniform in size ...
Imitation pearl. Bead cut from a homogeneous paste of rose petals (ground, dried, bathed several times in rose water and compacted). Polished with rose oil, it has a subtle, delicate scent.
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Formed when a half-bead is cemented to the mollusc's inner shell. The mollusc covers the half bead with nacre and when the shell is cut off, the bead is exposed at the back.
 See also: Jewel, Jewelry, Stone, Color, Gemstone
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