Antique Large Hank Micro Seed Beads Handmade Gray w/Purplish Tone Glass 1800's

Description: Antique Large Hank Micro Seed Beads Handmade Gray with dusky purple undertones, clear Glass 1800's !! Teeny tiny beads, the straight sewing pin shows the tiny size of these gorgeous beads, the bead just fits over the tip. These glass beads are a stunning treasure of soft gray with slight purple undertone color !! Most likely Czechoslovakia or Venice Italy. Weight is 240 grams. Countless thousands of beads in the large hank !!! These beads come from my grandmothers needlework Studio in Manhattan, LaMer's Studio 1909-1967, see photos, where she taught women, mostly from France, Italy, Austria and Switzerland how to reweave, bead, and repair invisibly any textile. The best students went on to become skilled needleworkers and remained in my grandmothers employ for many years. During the depression she has a thriving business catering to the wealthy New York elite, making beaded dresses, bags and shoes, as well as repairing any article of clothing or bed and table linens. Some of her clients whom I have letters from were Nat King Cole, a heavy smoker always burning his suits, Alice B.Tully of Tully Hall Lincoln Center, Henry Ford, yes THE Henry Ford, Eleanor Roosevelt and others.... Quite the history, she was a wonderful business woman when it not easy for a woman to have her own business, and she was an artist extraordinaire with a needle and thread. Thank you for looking and good luck with your auctions ! These are original antique beads, a treasure of teeny tiny beads not made today. Czechoslovakia began making seed beads in the early 18th century. ** I have used these tiny beads to make some bracelets, and have found that strong fishing line works well, as many needles are too wide. I do have beading needles from the studio as well and will occasionally list them for sale. Don't hesitate to ask if you are interested in the needles. ** Always happy to combine shipping ** Happy to include cards and ephemera from LaMer's Studio, just drop a note requesting !Drawn glass beads[edit]The drawing of glass is also very ancient. Evidence of large-scale drawn-glass beadmaking has been found by archeologists in India, at sites like Arekamedu dating to the 2nd century CE. The small drawn beads made by that industry have been called Indo-Pacific beads, because they may have been the single most widely traded item in history?found from the islands of the Pacific to Great Zimbabwe in southern Africa.[4]There are several methods for making drawn beads, but they all involve pulling a strand out of a gather of glass in such a way as to incorporate a bubble in the center of the strand to serve as the hole in the bead. In Arekamedu this was accomplished by inserting a hollow metal tube into the ball of hot glass and pulling the glass strand out around it, to form a continuous glass tube. In the Venetian bead industry, molten glass was gathered on the end of a tool called a puntile ("puntying up"), a bubble was incorporated into the center of a gather of molten glass, and a second puntile was attached before stretching the gather with its internal bubble into a long cane. The pulling was a skilled process, and canes were reportedly drawn to lengths up to 200 feet (61 m) long. The drawn tube was then chopped, producing individual drawn beads from its slices. The resulting beads were cooked or rolled in hot sand to round the edges without melting the holes closed; were sieved into sizes; and, usually, strung onto hanks for sale.

Price: 45 USD

Location: Millbrook, New York

End Time: 2024-12-18T01:49:03.000Z

Shipping Cost: 5.89 USD