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  10.24.2008 | by Ann Dee Allen

  New Forum for jewelry designers

  We’ve opened a new Forum on BeadAndButton.com for participants in the joint ISGB-Bead&Button project Convergence: Contemporary Jewelry Design with Art-Glass Beads. It's not really meant to be an administrative space for questions about the processMore Tags: Creativity, trends, Behind the scenes, lampwork, ISGB, competition, jewelry design, Bead&Button Show, Bead Dreams, choosing materials, art glass beads, beadwork, Bead&Button Magazine, bead news, color palettes, Larry Scott, Bead&Button Show 2009, beading competition, jewelry competition, Bead&Button, glass beads, International Society of Glass Beadmakers, BeadAndButton.com, inspiration, lampworked bead, jewelry

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  09.19.2008 | by Stacy Hillmer

  Have beads, will travel…even 1,000 years ago!

  Last week, a group of archeologists digging in Yorkshire, England, uncovered an intricately detailed 1 cm white bead dating to 1,000 years ago. What makes this find so remarkable is that the bead is believed to have originated in the eastern MediterraneanMore Tags: Bead history, travel, history, bead news

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  09.16.2008 | by Tea

  Beading is a great way to be involved in the arts

  Now that fall is upon us and school has been back in session for a few weeks, I’ve noticed more stories about the role that art plays in education . The authors of a study on arts education stress the importance of preparing students for the 21st centuryMore Tags: Creativity, bead stitching, bead news, spiral peyote, tubular peyote, beading

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  08.12.2008 | by Tea

  Popular pearls

  Last week, associate editor Lynne Soto wrote about pearls for first ladies (and later, she wrote about pearls on TV shows ). About the same time, the Canadian Press wrote an article about Cindy McCain and Michelle Obama’s pearls. There must be somethingMore Tags: Creativity, Bead history, jewelry design, bead news, Beader's Handbook, pearls, bridal jewelry

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  06.03.2008 | by Tea

  Bead&Button in the news

  You know you’re popular when you’re mentioned in the media. Of course, this usually happens in the context of a story being about you or in a beading blog or even being listed in an events calendar . But what about when a friend forwards you a story fromMore Tags: 2008 Bead&Button Show, Bead&Button Show, Bead&Button Show 2008, bead news

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  04.18.2008 | by Stacy Hillmer

  Breaking bead news from 1911

  I frequently search the Internet for late-breaking stories about beads and beaded jewelry. But what about news from the past? What were people saying about beads 100 years ago? Recently, I searched for bead stories published in the 1910s. I found my firstMore Tags: bead news