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Arts & crafts

Arts & crafts comprises a multitude of activities and hobbies that involve making things with one's hands, usually from scratch. They can be sub-divided into 'handicrafts'( or traditional crafts ) that are fashioned in an old style using long practised techniques, and the rest which are more modern inventions that have become recent trends or fads.

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bugles

Arts & crafts; Beadwork

Longer, tube-shaped seed beads that come in many sizes. Bugle beads have different lengths but all bugle beads will be longer than they are thick, creating a tubular shape.

ceylon

Arts & crafts; Beadwork

Beads are sometimes identified as pearlized because of the pearly appearance of the finish.

crow bead

Arts & crafts; Beadwork

A glass pressed bead 6-9 mm in diameter with a 2mm or larger hole.

matgami bead

Arts & crafts; Beadwork

Bead that resembles an apple seed or a droplet. The hole is centered at the top, in the slightly flattened area of the bead.

bail

Arts & crafts; Beadwork

A metal loop that is used to attach a chain or cord to a pendant.