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Bead Society of Great Britain
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Formed in 1989, the Bead Society of Great Britain is open to all who appreciate beads; how they're made, how to use them, and their history. https://linktr.ee/beadsocietygb #BeadSocietyGB
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Bead Society of Great Britain @bsgb.bsky.social · Dec 17
please tap the Linktree in our profile to visit our website and for details of how to join the Bead Society of Great Britain

#BeadSocietyGB #Beads #HistoryOfBeads
The Bead Society of Great Britain, (formed in September 1989), is a subscription-based, non-profitmaking, non-commercial venture run by a permanent Team who work voluntarily. The Society is open to all those who have an appreciation, either private or professional, of beads ancient and modern, of all shapes, sizes, materials and colours; their techniques of manufacture, and their application. The aim of our Society is to encourage and share knowledge and enjoyment of every type of bead, to improve the accuracy of information and the skills of making, using, caring for and collecting beads, together with the understanding of the many peoples for whom beads are so important in their lives. Members receive three issues per year of the highly-acclaimed Journal The Society currently holds two-three meetings each year - lectures/workshops and an AGM. We have a varied program of courses, meetings and workshops, most are FREE to members. The Society numbers among its members private collectors, researchers, dealers, jewellery makers, bead embroiderers, beadwork weavers (on and off-loom), makers of beads, and many others, so there's a place for everyone!
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Bead Society of Great Britain @bsgb.bsky.social · 3d
Sunday Beady Eye Candy : Opal Beads

from a selection pinned with provenance to our Sweepings board on Pinterest

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#SundayBeadyEyeCandy #BeadyEyeCandy #BeadSocietyGB #Beads #HistoryOfBeads #OpalBeads
Sunday Beady Eye Candy : Opal Beads from a selection pinned with provenance to our Sweepings board on Pinterest, tap the Linktree in our profile or the link in-post
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Desert Lily Artistry @desertlilyartistry.bsky.social · 5d
What's on the bead board at the moment you ask? More hot air balloon earrings for the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta lol 🙌! I really do enjoy making these 🥰.

#Albuquerque #NewMexico #landofenchantment #AIBF #BalloonFiesta #Balloons #October #beadwork #beadedearrings #NMcrafter #ABQcrafter
A beading board filled with some of my current projects: hot air balloon earrings in different styles and designs along with their matching loose delica beads. There is also a random blue and white star that was a tester for Dallas Coyboys earrings. It's just chilling though because the sale fell through. *sad noises*
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Amy K @amyklassen.bsky.social · 8d
They call my people 'The Flower Beadwork People'. We were the first to combine elaborate French embroidery techniques with First Nations quill work. Our contribution to indigenous art and culture.

I wonder what life might have been if my Métis ancestors hadn’t been forced from Red River, ...
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Susan Jennys (she/her) @yellowstonenpgeek.bsky.social · 4d
Starting a new beadwork project. Takes me a couple of hours to do what I call “layout” before I can sew down any beads!
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Colchester Museums @colmuseums.bsky.social · 4d
Look closely at the hem and you can spot a later alteration where it was raised. It hints at a second life, passed on, adjusted, worn again, a reminder that most wardrobes were thrifty and social lives were busy.

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Upper side‑bodice detail with contrasting black and clear beadwork in repeating horizontal lines; slight puckering from the gathered drop‑waist construction can be seen. Shoulder and armhole detail with dense beading in geometric bands; some net repairs and fraying at the edge are visible, showing the dress’s age and use.
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Colchester Museums @colmuseums.bsky.social · 4d
Colchester’s nights out were changing in the 1920s. Dance halls, assembly rooms and the new cinemas drew mixed crowds, and young people went out without a chaperone. This beaded chiffon dress belonged to that world.
Full-length view of a 1920s sleeveless dress in pale yellow silk crepe chiffon. The straight, drop‑waist silhouette is covered with horizontal bands of black and clear glass beadwork, including Greek‑key and Egyptian‑influenced motifs. Areas of wear and past shortening are visible along the hem.
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Colchester Museums @colmuseums.bsky.social · 4d
Thousands of tiny black and clear beads caught the glow of electric light while a straight, drop-waisted cut made the foxtrot and Charleston easier than in earlier corseted styles.
Detail of the lower bodice showing rows of small square beads forming loops and diamond patterns on translucent chiffon; the texture of the beads and the softness of the fabric are clearly visible.
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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 4d
The emerald green silk chosen for this #1960s evening dress is shirred across the whole garment creating the crimping. It rises to a funnel neck decorated with beads & brilliants reminiscent of Ancient Egyptian splendour. Designed by Ruth Bailey @museumofcityny.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
Back view of a mannequin wearing a long sleeveless silk tunic dress, the hem at the back slightly longer. It has a funnel neck of beadwork A closer view of the bodice of the emerald chiffon dress showing the shirred fabric, funnel neck and round collar shape of the green shaded beads and brilliants The front of the sleeveless emerald green evening dress showing the shape of the tunic
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SAHASA 🐙 @sculptedreef.com · 3d
#ColorADay #OrangeSun

Hand crafted corals made from tiny glass beads and paillettes 🪸

#ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #BlueSkyArtShow #ColourADay #CoralReef #Sculpture #MarineLife #BlueSkyNightMarket #OnlyBeautifulThings #Invertebrates 🦑🐡
Mixed media artwork featuring hand crafted corals, made from tiny glass beads and paillettes. They are different shades of orange, with some leaning to topaz and gold on the right side and leaning to red on the left side.
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 7d
Fascinating world of ancient #glass: a #Roman bracelet made of turquoise and dark blue glass beads. They are imitating beads made of the lapis lazuli and turquoise, semi-precious stones mined in Afghanistan and Egypt.
Found in a burial in Augusta Raurica, Switzerland, 4th c. AD

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🏺 #archaeology
A beaded bracelet made of alternating cube-shaped stones in turquoise green and deep blue, arranged in a circle on a dark textured surface.
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Bead Society of Great Britain @bsgb.bsky.social · 7d
Did Archaeologists Find Western Europe's Oldest Shell Jewellery Workshop?

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Did Archaeologists Find Western Europe's Oldest Shell Jewellery Workshop? SAINT-CÉSAIRE, FRANCE, 26/9/25 ~ A multi-institutional research team working at the prehistoric site of La-Roche-à-Pierrot in Saint-Césaire identified the oldest known shell jewellery workshop in western Europe, according to a statement released by the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). Excavations uncovered a number of pierced shells as well as yellow and red pigments. However, it was the absence of wear marks and the presence of unperforated shells that led archaeologists to believe the site was used to manufacture finished products from raw materials. The shells came from the Atlantic coast, which was around 60 miles away at the time, while the pigments were sourced from a site at least 25 miles away. This attests to significant human mobility and long-distance trade networks established by the artefacts’ creators. The site dates to between 55,000 and 42,000 years ago, a period that experts associate with the so-called Châtelperronian culture, which inhabited parts of France and northern Spain. This was a significant transitional era in Western Europe when Neanderthals were in the process of being replaced by Homo sapiens. The researchers are not certain who exactly made the shell jewellery, but note the evidence indicates that Châtelperronian people may have been influenced by—or may even have been part of—a very early group of Homo sapiens who moved into the region There's a clickable link to this and a related article on our Sweepings board on Pinterest, tap the Linktree in our profile or the link in-post
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Dr Tom Horne @hornesupremacy.bsky.social · 8d
Historiska museet:

'Grave find, Birka, Bj 632, Adelsö Parish, Uppland.

Object number 108117_HST'
Faceted beads and pendants from Birka Grave 632
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SAHASA 🐙 @sculptedreef.com · 10d
No.13 "Hyakinthos" Sculpted Reef Series 🪸 Hand crafted corals made from tiny glass beads 🎨

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#ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #Sculpture #MarineLife #CoralReef #ArtSale #BSNM #Invertebrates 🦑🐡
Hand crafted coral garden in shades of transparent AB, golden pinks and golden greens.
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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 9d
🧪🦣🏺 This is v cool and also not v surprising to me, since we have apparent interest in green colour in #Neanderthals, and also green malachite beads in Late Upper Palaeolithic (around the same time as this azurite) at Shanidar Cave.
Origins material & colour aesthetics are deep and shared!
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Dr Izzy Wisher @izzywisher.bsky.social · 9d
Time to update your Palaeolithic palettes... 🔵

Very proud to share our new research on the OLDEST use of blue pigment! We identified traces of azurite - a vibrant blue mineral - on a stone object around 14-13,000 years old. Why is this so exciting? 👇🏺

doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Close-up image of a sand coloured stone, with a diagonal crack. The sand rock has a textured surface, and small spots of blue can be seen towards the centre of the stone. The background is grey. Microscopic photo of the blue spots, that are irregular in shape and size and positioned diagonally across the image. The rest of the photo shows the rough sand coloured texture of the stone.
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SAHASA 🐙 @sculptedreef.com · 9d
No.13 "Hyakinthos" Sculpted Reef Series 🪸 Hand crafted corals made from tiny glass beads 🎨

Photos, Details & Available here: sculptedreef.com/products/no-...

#ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #Sculpture #MarineLife #CoralReef #ArtSale #BSNM #Invertebrates 🦑🐡
A mixed media artwork featuring a hand sculpted Larger Pacific Striped Octopus and hand beaded corals.
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Moth Mouth @placecalledbliss.bsky.social · 8d
Memory necklace 🪡⚙️🕷🍂🗝🕯
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20" necklace and with vintage natural stone, pearls, glass, wood, ceramic, paper and metal beads, buttons and trinkets, grapevine pentacle with an antique gold-coloured toggle clasp. No two beads are alike!
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Kenn Pike @thutigger.bsky.social · 9d
Evening dress, 1958
La Petite, Melbourne
Designer Pat Rodgers
~silk velvet, cotton, and tulle embroidered with glass beads sequins

📸Australian Fashion & Textiles Department within the National Gallery of Victoria
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Beautiful Bizarre Magazine @beautifulbizarre.net · 11d
Guard IV (Wind Rose) by Anna Cyan brings together symbolic, powerful elements that are not only seen but felt.
Glass beads, thread, laminate gauze and paper
2025

#beautifulbizarre #contemporaryart #surrealart #beads #mixedmediaart #artcollectors #artmagazine #artinspo #art
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Hannah{Melb N1🧡✨} @vynadrel.swifties.social · 8d
just dug out the old friendship bracelet beads… 🤭
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Victoria Haddock @vickyhaddock.bsky.social · 9d
This week's #TwentiesTuesday garment is this lavender chiffon evening dress embroidered with silver glass beads that form vertical cascading stripes down the dress. It was designed by French dressmaker Alice Cournier. Alexandre Vassiliev Foundation. #fashionhistory
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Archaeo - Histories @archaeohistories.bsky.social · 9d
An Ojibwa coat from Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦, crafted around 1789 CE, from native buffalo leather, rawhide, pigment, porcupine quills, glass beads, and deer hair.

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

#archaeohistories
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SAHASA 🐙 @sculptedreef.com · 9d
🪸 Reef Dreams VI ⭐ Caribbean Reef Octopus 🐙

🐙 Sculpted from clay and lovingly painted 🎨 🪸 🪸 Glass beads set on silver wire

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#Art #ArtYear #ArtGallery #BSNM #CoralReef #ReefSpecies #Sculpture #MarineLife #Octopus 🦑🐡
A mixed media artwork featuring two hand sculpted Caribbean Reef Octopuses and a coral reef, hand crafted from tiny glass beads set on silver wire. The title of this piece is Reef Dreams VI.
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Ember Babiak (they/them) @wendybabiak.bsky.social · 10d
I used 24 karat gold-plated beads to make this in his honor.
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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 7d
Glass beads made by our @uclarchaeology.bsky.social first years students lying against the furnace built by Vic Lucas.
#ATech25
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Susanne Rell @susannerell.bsky.social · 10d
Handmade glass beads, 2025 #handmadeglassbeads #handgemachteglasperlen #lampwork
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