Bracelet ~ Vintage Beads W/Abalone One-of-a-Kind Abalone order Allure Tribal Treasure. Artist: Teresa Bradford-Cole

Bracelet ~ Vintage Beads W/Abalone
Artist: Teresa Bradford-Cole
One-of-a-Kind
Abalone Allure Tribal Treasure
Length: 7"
Stunning and impressive Gypsy Jewelry
Wrap this unique bundle of joy around your wrist.
A mermaid Jewel, from under the sea.
Zapped with Blue from past Czechoslovakia, Venetian, European trade beads,
African trade beads, Beads have a story to tell.
Beads Circles of life. Yes, life within beads. History with beads.
and Yes the Power of beads.
Abalone Shell holder of the rainbows Heaven touching the Earth.

Bead Sources
Early trade beads arriving in America came mostly from the workshops of Venice and after a while from Murano in Italy and Aleppo. The Netherlands was also a substantial producer (mainly from Amsterdam and Delft). In later times the bulk of the output came from the Bohemian region of central Europe (much of what is now Czechoslovakia) and Poland. England, France, and Spain produced them too.
The so-called “Russian blue” bead has little to do with Russia. These transparent dark blue beads were most usually faceted with 18, 21 or 24 faces, fire-polished and produced in Bohemia in the early 1800s. They were widely traded to Russian fur-hunters in Alaska and the northwest coast by both Americans and Europeans in exchange for furs, from the 1860s onwards. That's really why they came to be known as “Russian blues” but the term has been indiscriminately extended to describe other unrelated blue beads.

❤ Teresa Bradford-Cole Sacred Beaded, Modern Tribal Jewelry My work is emotional and passionate, weaving moments of the past, moments of the present, Visions of the future, cultivating & manifesting. Creating art to wear, to embrace the sacred shaman within. We are our own shaman. I am intense, my pieces are intense. They are statement pieces, of which have an energy of their own, it's as if I throw it all in the air & they fall into place, bead by bead. Working with textures is a passion of mine; I am also driven to create that which inspires something I myself would want to wear.

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