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Adding beads to clothing can be found as far back as the Late Old Stone Age (the Upper Paleolithic). These were large beads of shell or ivory. What we think of as beadwork, using small seed beads, is also quite old. There are beaded items in Egypt from over 4,000 years ago.

Lead is an important clue when considering Chinese beads. It was rarely used in glass made in the West. Lead does several things to glass, including making it more brilliant and easier to cut (think of Swarovski crystals, at right). I think the Chinese used it because it makes glass easier to remelt, so that a factory could send glass to villages where the beads were actually made.

The earliest exported Chinese beads were small, wound "coil beads" that look like they were cut from springs. They became very common all over Southeast Asia and elsewhere for a long time and are still made today.

The word used for bead in the greatest number of languages in the world is the same word used for pearl. This is true in Greek, Latin, French, Italian, German, Swedish, Serb, Croatian, Hindi, Tamil and languages of insular Southeast Asia. Of course, it is not the same word, but the word for pearl is the word for bead.

In Russian, Czech, Polish, Dutch and Yiddish the word for bead is the word for coral.
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