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May 29, 2008

Bead Jewelry Idea: Make New Beaded Jewelry from Old Beaded Jewelry

Now that flea market and yard sale season is here I’m starting to hunt around for deals forgotten pieces of older bead jewelry. Instead of just harvesting the beads from some of these jewelry pieces and creating completely new …

June 22, 2007

More Amazing Ancient Shell Beads Discovered

Filed under: Jewelry and Beading News - 22 Jun 2007

More Ancient Shell Beads Found
They don’t look like much, but these were probably used by ancient man (and woman!) to create primitive bead …

December 19, 2005

Beads – A Brief History

Filed under: Jewelry Beads - 19 Dec 2005

Written by: Felicity Walker

What do you think the earliest recorded use of beads is – is your first thought perhaps beadwork created by the Egyptians? Yes, there certainly were a lot of beaded items in Egyptian times, but beadwork has …

November 18, 2005

Oldest “Jewelry” Found to be Beads!

Filed under: Jewelry and Beading Fun - 18 Nov 2005

Okay, so this little tidbit of information probably won’t help you at your next craft show, but it does make you think when you read that National Geographic is reporting about a new discovery indicates that human beings have been …