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This 3 strand beaded bracelet is elegant with it’s cool, translucent sea foam strands… and dangles of glass pearls… sparkling with silver beads and spacers. Wear this bracelet with an elegant white blouse or dress up your casual t-shirts… or wear it with a green sweater to pull out the green. Beautiful!

Skills required:

Crimping Stringing Beads Wire Working

A gemstone is a precious or semi-precious stone used for jewelry. Scientifically, it is a mineral, rock or petrified material. Some beautiful gemstones are too soft or too fragile to be used in jewelry, for example, single-crystal rhodochrosite, but are exhibited in museums and are sought by collectors of mineral or crystal specimens.

There are natural and manmade gemstones. Natural gemstones are one of the nature’s finest creations. A genuine real gemstone is available in one piece only, meaning no two gemstones are alike. Sometimes these gemstones are further finished, dyed and stained.

As beads serve multiple purposes and can be used for creative work like jewelry making, crafts, handbags, and the like, they are gaining popularity among women and kids. Apart from this, craftsmen and artisans use these beads to enhance the value of their product. They combine these beads along with their weaves to create beautiful patterns. Creativity gets a new horizon when one starts working with beads

Glass beads present an artistic spectrum of beauty with value. They come in vibrant colors, shape and finishes, and add a magical touch to the product. There are different types of glass beads like Czech glass beads, handmade dichroic glass, Millefiori, lamp work beads and even bumpy glass beads. They are available in different colors and sizes which artisans pick up to complete their canvas.

Flip through the pages of that fashion catalogue you just received and you’ll find summer blouses embroidered with beads, sequins, and rhinestones. Skim through the pages with sandals displayed and you’ll discover many are adorned with chunky glass and metal bobbles. Even ladies accessories - everything from watches to sparkly bracelets, earrings, and necklaces - are decorated with shiny crystals.

This season it seems that everything is embellished with beads, bobbles, rhinestones, and crystals. Unfortunately, most of us don’t have the financial means to purchase an entirely new wardrobe every year to reflect the newest fashion craze. But that’s okay.

Wood beads make great imitate jewelry at a far lesser cost. What’s more, wood can be found almost anywhere, so wherever there is wood, you can create your own wood beads. Carpenters and carvers from various regions of the world make use of any available wood species while bead-making was given as an exercise for apprentices or as some form of artwork by journeyman and master during their spare time. The end-result would be amazing variety of designs of wood beads that range in sizes, shapes, and types.