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Posted by The LazyBum on August 2, 2008, 12:38 am
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Do most people that do beading make their own glass beads, or do they just
buy them?
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Posted by Kris Krieger on August 2, 2008, 4:07 pm
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> Do most people that do beading make their own glass beads, or do they
> just buy them?
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I'd guess Buy (based upon the few peopel I've known who've done either),
esp. depending upon what kind of beading you're talking about (i.e.,
stringing beads, or actually covering objects by "weaving" bead together).
Beading, and making beads, are different skill-sets, require different set-
ups/equipment, and have a different focus.
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Posted by The LazyBum on August 3, 2008, 1:09 am
Please log in for more thread options Oh lord, don't get me lying... This is actually my girlfriends project,
what I am doing asking stuff trying to figure out what she gets outta this.
However, I do admit, I do use plastic beads on my shark leaders :)
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>> Do most people that do beading make their own glass beads, or do they
>> just buy them?
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> I'd guess Buy (based upon the few peopel I've known who've done either),
> esp. depending upon what kind of beading you're talking about (i.e.,
> stringing beads, or actually covering objects by "weaving" bead together).
> Beading, and making beads, are different skill-sets, require different
> set-
> ups/equipment, and have a different focus.
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Posted by Kris Krieger on August 9, 2008, 3:42 pm
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> Subject: Re: glass beads
> Newsgroups: rec.crafts.glass
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> Oh lord, don't get me lying... This is actually my girlfriends
> project,
> what I am doing asking stuff trying to figure out what she gets outta
> this. However, I do admit, I do use plastic beads on my shark leaders
> :) --
> http://www.funcraftics.com
Eh, whatever - different people like doing different things. IMO, the fon
is from taking raw amterials, and seeing them take shape, esp. when the
shape actually fits what you've envisioned <g!>
IF your GF is making glass beads using rods and a bunsen-burner, it's just
fun to use what is normally a destructive thing (fire/flame) in a way to
transform one thing, to create a new thing.
Most humans get enjoyment from shaping their environment, and/or elements
thereof, to fit their own preferences. Some garden, some build things, and
so on. Those things become Art when they're done in a way that
communicates ideas/feelings to otehr people, gets them thnking, "moves"
them as is said.
So, the point isn't so much what, specifically, your GF gets out of
beadwork, but rather, the fact that she is being creative, and doing
something that gives her (and if applicable, her clients) joy through the
act of creating something.
COnsider some of the elaborate fishing-flys that people make. I mean,
erally, do they *need* to do all of that work? I know that it's
"justified" by talking baout the vagaries of fish 'psychology' so to speak,
but it's also, let's face it, the creation of something that has it's own
aesthetic, its own beauty if you will. Practical things by no means
"need" to be ugly, after all. ((Of course, the actual fishing is also a
reward, practicing as it does a primally-satisfying sense of being able to
pit oneself against nature and succeed in providing for oneself and one's
family :) ))
HTH
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>>> Do most people that do beading make their own glass beads, or do
>>> they just buy them?
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>> I'd guess Buy (based upon the few peopel I've known who've done
>> either), esp. depending upon what kind of beading you're talking
>> about (i.e., stringing beads, or actually covering objects by
>> "weaving" bead together). Beading, and making beads, are different
>> skill-sets, require different set-
>> ups/equipment, and have a different focus.
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Posted by Bill Browne on August 5, 2008, 1:25 am
Please log in for more thread options Disclaimer: Coming from some who doesn't make beads:
From what I've seen, it seems like those that bead buy them from those that
make beads. But I would think that there would be a certain attraction to
those that made designs from their own custom beads. And seeing how Hobby
Lobby sells all that you need to make glass beads, it looks like creativity
and imagination would be your only limitations.
> Do most people that do beading make their own glass beads, or do they just
> buy them?
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