Seed beads are colorful and fun to work with.One of the most common arts and crafts practiced by multiple Native American tribes included the decorative use of beads of various types. Choose the one that you will use based on your personal tastes and the project you are working on. These are only five of the popular seed bead finish styles available.

Because the color of these beads is on the inside, they usually appear to have muted colors. These beads are most often transparent glass on the outside edges. However, instead of silver foil in the center hole of the seed bead, they have a colorful layer of foil, paint, or glass. Seed Bead Finish Style #5 - Color Lined StyleĬolor lined seed beads are a lot like the silver lined beads. Orange iris beads would have some red and some yellow hues. For example, blue iris beads would shine with some green and purple tones. While iridescent beads will shimmer in all hues of the rainbow, iris finish beads usually include colors that are next to the main bead color on a color wheel. Iris finish beads are close to being iridescent. This creates a very shiny and sparkling style of bead. In the center of the bead, directly surrounding the hole, is a thin layer of silver colored foil. Silver lined seed beads are fashioned from transparent glass in either clear or any color. Seed Bead Finish Style #3 - Silver Lined Style They are characterized by an extra shiny coating with the appearance of metal rather than the glass they are made of. Metallic finish seed beads in colors of red, blue, green and other colors are popular. It can come in many different colors, bronze, gold, silver and copper tones. Seed Bead Finish Style #2 - Metallic FinishĪ metallic seed bead finish is one that has the appearance of metal. Those beads appear to be milky and are not truly see through. There are transparent matte finish seed beads. Matte finish seed beads are usually opaque and of one solid color. A matte finish means that the outside of the bead is not a smooth and shiny style. Seed beads that have a matte finish reflect no light.

They come in a variety of sizes, colors, and finish styles. They are most popular in bead weaving, bead loom, and bead sculpting. Seed beads are tiny beads used in a variety of craft beading projects. Visit our website and see our YouTubes for more information. Finished seed bead designs can be directly transferred to a loom or hand stitched, row by row with threaded needle, or can be left on the board as a guide.Beads are nestled in the board and will not shift when the board is gently moved.Just remove the unwanted bead and replace it. Changes to the design are made on the board with ease.OGees Seed Beading Design Board allows designs to be created using the actual beads intended.The Design Board has two sized dimples on each side, allowing designs with seed bead sized 16/0 to 08/0, delicas, and square beads. Each side contains 10 compartments to hold the beads as you create your design. Designs for beaded crochet and beaded kumohimo can also be created on OGees Board.

OGees Seed Beading Design Board is two sided, allowing design in square, ladder, herringbone, & loom stitched pattern on one side and peyote, brick & right angle stitches on the second side.

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