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Carved Beads
By Sandy Paluzzi People have been carving for millenniums. They have found carvings on ancient caves. I can just imagine some caveman carving an amulet for himself or his mate. This ancient craft has survived the test of time. Carving spanned various continents and cultures. Early Chinese emperors prized heavily carved pit beads. Native Americans carved deer horns, turtle shell and animal horn. East Indians carved gemstones and horn. Islanders carved shells and coral. People of the Holy Land carved olive wood. Before it was outlawed, African ivory was heavily carved. The Japanese are world famous for their netsuke beads - small sculptural beads historically made of boxwood. There are two ways of carving beads. One way is to actually carve the bead to resemble something such as a leaf or rose. Other beads are regularly shaped with images carved into them. The Chinese typically carve rectangular or round cinnabar (nowadays wood) by embedding good luck symbols in them. They also carved images into semi-precious beads. The East Indians carve horn, bone and semi-precious beads. With today's new laser technology, new materials are easily carved. Brightly anodized aluminum and sterling silver beads are easily carved to present depth to their designs.
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