Bead Basics

is divided into four sections. Click on any live (underlined blue) link.

Materials Manufacture Trade Use Glass Glass, Wound Origins Wearing Faience Glass, Drawn Local Beadwork Stones Glass, Other Regional Status Shells Glass, Sintered Global Religion and Superstition Metal Shell Traders Heirlooms Plastic Stone, etc. Samples Tools Natural Materials Shapes - Counting, Mnemonic Devices

Why Beads? Bead Research Loss or Toss? Fakes and Frauds

Also read Beads and Where They Have Led Me

Bead Basics is an electronic book, Copyright © 1998 Peter Francis, Jr. Permission is granted to download a single copy. For multiple copies of the book or any part thereof permission must be granted in writing by the publisher.
 

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