One of the easiest way to obtain wonderful beads is by trading for them. These five beads were the ones I received in Laura Brito's ‘Big Bead exchange’. I hope every one who received my beads is enjoying them just as much.
Perhaps the biggest difference between these beads and the ones I typically make is that all of these are solid, and three of them are bicones, a shape I've only recently had any success whatsoever in making. One is cased. One, the stacked dots, involves what I call slow mandrel turning techniques, which I find physically painful. Thus, all of these beads illustrate techniques I don't do well, an added bonus.
Artists are in alphabetical order. Click on the thumbnails for enlargements, 500 pixels wide. Images copyright sylvus tarn, but the bead designs revert to the creators.
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