My new book just published!
BEADS A HISTORY AND COLLECTOR'S GUIDE
Stefany Tomalin
Until recently, beads were under-researched. Even today in UK antique markets, necklaces and single beads still turn up in bargain boxes at cheap prices, whether glass, plastic, semiprecious stones - in fact anything that can have a threadable hole - or as ethnic jewellery, holiday souvenirs or lavish carnival costume accessories.
Throughout history, beads have shown prestige and wealth in their roles as trade goods, heirlooms and dowry, markers of tribal loyalty, prayer aids, magic talismans, love tokens and signs of status in life. Beads reveal amazing skills and give us an idea of the things we value enough to copy in miniature. Beads continue to display astonishing ingenuity - they are made of almost every possible material.
Handmade or mass-produced glass, stone, ceramic, bone, shell, pearls, coral, amber, jet, cast or handwrought metals; found objects or items constructed of tiny beads; stitched or woven modern or traditional patterns: every piece leads to new discoveries.
This book helps you explore the origins of many of your treasures, whatever types of bead you collect, and covers a wide range of categories such as 'eye beads', Millefiori Trade Beads found in the 1960s, exotic tropical seeds and nuts necklaces, Art Deco chokers, real or reproduction Egyptian Mummy beads, Tibetan stone Zi beads with applied designs, rosaries or even antique beads found on traditional English lace bobbins!
ISBN 978-1-4456-5865-0
To order from me (cheque to S.Tomalin): within UK £14.99 +P&P = £17.99
Worldwide: (Paypal to "Beadtreasures.com"): £14.99 +P&P Total = £22.99
= approximately US $30.
(I include a few extra pictures with any copies bought direct from me)
Please email me to purchase by Paypal: Email: srt@beadata.com
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