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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