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Beads and pearls - additional info
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Beads and pearls have found their place in every handicrafters drawer.
You can make large number of handicraft items from beads: jewellery, brooches, embroidery etc.
Pearls by sizes:
Glasspearls (1,26 eur pack): Plasticpearls (1,20 eur pack):
6mm 40gr ~ 150pcs 20gr ~ 200pcs
8mm 40gr ~ 65pcs 20gr ~ 75pcs
10mm 40gr ~ 35pcs 20gr ~ 40pcs
12mm PK 10pcs 20gr ~ 24pcs
Seed beads can be transparent, lustre, silver lined or frosted.
Seedbead sizes:
- 5/0 = 4,5mm diameter
- 6/0 = 4mm diameter
- 8/0 = 3,1mm diameter
- 9/0 = 2,7mm diameter
- 10/0 = 2,3mm diameter
- 11/0 = 2,1mm diameter
- 12/0 = 1,9mm diameter
There is 540 beads in size 6/0 in 40 gram package.
There is 1400 beads in size 9/0 in 40 gram package.
There is 5200 beads in size 12/0 in 40 gram package.
Glass beads divide:
- Machine made
- Hand made
Machine made beads are pressed from glass mass.
Hand made beads from heated glass tubes. The tubes are rolled on a hot gas heater and other colours of glass is added until an unique glass tube is formed. The tube will be cut to pieces and the pieces are rolled into beads.