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2. Glass bead making - Wikipedia

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   Soda-lime glass can be blown at the end of a metal tube, or, more commonly wound on the mandrel to make a hollow bead, but the former is unusual and the latter not a true mouth-blown technique.) In addition, beads can be fused from sheet glass or using ground glass. Modern Ghana has an industry in beads molded from powdered glass.

3. Prehistoric beads in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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   Agate Heirloom Beads. According to Carter, among the materials for bead making, glass was the most extensively used material in the ancient past. [3] This is due to the fact that glass is highly durable and preservable, and contains a vast amount of shapes and colors.

4. Bead - Wikipedia

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   A selection of glass beads Merovingian bead Trade beads, 18th century Trade beads, 18th century. A bead is a small, decorative object that is formed in a variety of shapes and sizes of a material such as stone, bone, shell, glass, plastic, wood, or pearl and with a small hole for threading or stringing. Beads range in size from under 1 ...

5. Powder glass beads - Wikipedia

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   Krobo bead (fused glass fragments) Krobo powder glass beads are made in vertical molds fashioned out of a special, locally dug clay.Most molds have a number of depressions, designed to hold one bead each, and each of these depressions, in turn, has a small central depression to hold the stem of a cassava leaf.

6. Wampum - Wikipedia

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   Wampum beads are typically tubular in shape, often a quarter of an inch long and an eighth of an inch wide. One 17th-century Seneca wampum belt featured beads almost 2.5 inches (65 mm) long. [1] Women artisans traditionally made wampum beads by rounding small pieces of whelk shells, then piercing them with a hole before stringing them.

7. Fun Mardi Gras Facts That You Didn't Know - AOL

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   Read on for our sampling of Mardi Gras' unique history, trivia, and much more. ... In 2018 a city drain-cleaning effort found 93,000 pounds of parade beads jammed the drainage system. bhofack2 ...