| Before it was possible to smelt metal and beat it | | | | A beaded jewelry designer can make objects |
| into shape for rings and bracelets, bead jewelry | | | | that consist of just a single series of beautiful |
| was being made. Nothing easier than to take | | | | stones strung along a necklace, or up to a |
| attractive and light-weight shells or plant beans, | | | | thousand small beads dangling down from |
| pierce them with an awl or other sharp device, | | | | pendants in an intricate pattern. The imagination is |
| and string them around one's wrists, arms or | | | | the limit when it comes to such designs. |
| neck. | | | | The only drawback with beaded jewelry is that if |
| Seashell beads used for jewelry have been found | | | | the attaching material isn't absolutely the best, it is |
| that are over 100,000 years old, indicating that | | | | possible for beads to drop off the jewelry and |
| people have wanted to adorn their bodies with | | | | never be found again! |
| beautiful jewelry since the beginning of time. A | | | | As with any other type of jewelry, beaded |
| beaded jewelry designer today can create unique | | | | jewelry design can be definitely ethnic, featuring |
| pieces created for modern times, or homages to | | | | the designs used by native peoples for thousands |
| the ethnic and classic designs of the past. | | | | of years, or it can take a fresh, modern outlook. |
| There is no limit to the kinds of beads that can | | | | The design of beaded artwork is really limited only |
| be used in beaded jewelry design. From natural | | | | by the artist's imagination... and the availability of |
| products like seeds, stones, shells and so on, to | | | | the materials desired! Indeed, the current craze is |
| artificially produced products such as plastic and | | | | to put the face of a famous person on a purse |
| glass, designers have created magnificent beaded | | | | or bag, using white and black beads to pick out |
| jewelry that catch the eye and remain in the | | | | the features - eyes, nose and mouth and so on. |
| memory. | | | | |