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Exploring Local Glassmaking and Social Significance: Gilded Glass Beads in Colonial Mexico City
Full text linkThis article centers on gilded glass beads discovered through excavations conducted by the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia in Mexico City, with a particular focus on the collection from the Convent of the Incarnation. This study challenges two prevalent notions regarding these artifacts in New Spain. Firstly, the archaeological context defies the conventional belief that these beads were exclusively intended for Indigenous or African-origin populations. Evidence suggests that these items were also a component of the attire worn by Spanish women of Peninsular and Creole origin who constituted the local elite. Secondly, by combining archaeological findings with historical sources, it becomes evident that the viceroyalty fostered a specialized glassmaking industry for the production of small objects, including beads. The practice of beadmaking in New Spain commenced during the 16th century and experienced its zenith in the 18th century, characterized by the emergence of distinctive stylistic features that probably included gilded beads
Eighteenth-Century North American Firearms Decorated with Inlaid Glass Beads
Full text linkOver the millennia, glass beads have been used to ornament a wide array of objects. A rare application in the 18th century was their use to personalize and adorn firearms used on the North American continent. Only four examples have been encountered so far
L'Impiraressa: The Venetian Bead Stringer
Full text linkIn 1893, Irene Ninni published a succinct account of a large but little-known group of Venetian women called impiraressa or bead stringers whose task it was to thread the glass beads produced on Murano and form them into hanks for the world market. The original Italian text is provided, along with an English translation. Two late 19th-century paintings by John Singer Sargent provide a rare glimpse of the bead stringers at work
Gold-Glass Beads: A Review of the Evidence
Full text linkThe study of gold-glass beads was given a considerable boost in the 1970s by Weinberg's report on their manufacture in Hellenistic Rhodes and by Alekseeva's and Boon's studies on finds from southern Russia and Britain, respectively. Nothing comparable has been published in the intervening years, but scattered new information has appeared. This paper aims to survey and review the available data on manufacturing technique, style, provenience and chronology. An attempt is also made to fit gold-glass beads into the general framework of glass history. The main focus is on the finds of the Mediterranean and related regions in pre-Islamic times. Note is taken of the continuation of the use of gold-glass beads in Medieval Europe. Conclusions drawn are usually only tentative - if not hypothetical - as sufficiently well-documented source material is scarce
Flying Woman’s Beaded Cheyenne Cradleboard and Associated Bead Card from Fort Keogh, Montana
Full text linkGlass bead sample cards were sent out in the 19th century by bead dealers and producers to illustrate their products and few are known that include small beads of drawn manufacture. One such card marked New York was acquired in 1882 by Captain Eli Lindesmith, a Catholic priest and Army chaplain at Fort Keogh, Montana. Lindesmith used the card to select seed beads for a cradleboard he commissioned that year from a Cheyenne woman named Flying Woman, the wife of Wolf Voice. This previously undescribed sample card is compared to other 19th-century cards displaying drawn beads in an attempt to determine its origin. Insight into the identity and family history of the maker of the cradleboard is also provided
Beads and Bead Makers: Gender, Material Culture, and Meaning, by Lidia D. Sciama and Joanne B. Eicher (eds.) (1998)
Full text linkMore on Fustat Fused Rod Beads
Full text linkMore on Fustat Fused Rod Beads, by Peter Francis, Jr. (1993, 23:3-4
The Suitability of the ISCC-NBS Centroid Color Charts for Determining Bead Colors
Full text linkThe Suitability Of The Iscc-Nbs Centroid Color Charts For Determining Bead Colors, by Karlis Karklins (1989, 14:8-12
ISCC-NBS Centroid Color Chart Update
Full text linkIscc-Nbs Centroid Color Chart Update, by Karlis Karklins (1992, 20:6