Beads Bracelet

Beads Bracelet

InStyle July 2009 Issue Featuring Camilla Belle for HELP Malawi wearing African Trade Bead Bracelets for HELP (a children's charity in africa)

WHO: Camilla Belle, InStyle Magazine July 2009 Issue

WHAT: InStyle July 2009 Issue Featuring Camilla Belle for HELP (Malawi, Africa) wearing 

the African Trade Bead Bracelets in the "Where Can I Find" section.

WHEN: July 2009

Fun Facts about Camilla's Bracelets:

 

The term "Trade Beads" typically applies to beads made predominately in Venice and Bohemia and other European countries from the late 1400s through to the early 1900s and traded in Africa and the Americas. Many of these beads have been attributed to being made in Germany, France and the Netherlands as well.

The heyday of this "trade" period was from the mid 1800s through the early 1900s when millions of these beads were produced and traded in Africa. The Venetians dominated this market and produced the majority of the beads sold during this time. The J.F. Sick and Co, based in Germany and Holland was one of the largest bead brokers/importers during this period. 

The popularity of these beads was revived in the late 1960s when they began to be exported from Africa into the United States and Europe. The term "Trade Beads" became very popular during this time period and is still used for the same bead reference today. The millefiori beads were also called "Love Beads" and used in necklaces with peace symbols during the Hippie days.

As the popularity and availability of these old beads grew they started getting "named". We started hearing terms like "Russian Blues", "Dutch Donuts", "King Beads". Although some of these folklore names are totally meaningless...ie...."Lewis and Clarke" beads, they do describe a specific type of bead.

And today these beads are more popular and collectable than ever. Thousands of these beads are in private collections around the world. The African Traders are having to go deeper and deeper into Africa to find more of these beads and many styles which were readily available just 5 years ago are no longer seen today.

There are exceptional museum collections of trade beads at the Museum of Mankind in London, the Pitt River Museum in Oxford, the Royal Museum of Central Africa in Belgium, the Murano Museum of Glass in Italy, the Tropical Royal Institute of Amsterdam, the Bead Museum in Arizona, US and the Picard Trade Bead Museum in California, US to name a few.

One of the most intriguing aspects to these beads is how they have survived a hundred or more years of wear and the travel through at least three continents. Another mystery is who wore them before us who will have them next.......after us. 

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green rectangular beads with white polka dots, then white beads between each one, its a bracelet?

i got a bracelet from some kind of shower, not sure if baby or bridal or whatever, but its a plastic bracelet with green rectangular beads that have white polka dots and round pearl colored beads between them. i lost it yesterday at Allatoona Lake inside the closed off area. Anyone seen one anywhere? i searched google images, nothing

http://www.beadtrendz.com/catalog/item/2976187/2484014.htm
this it?!?!? srry i thought i posted this guess i didn't if not email me i can find these things with ease!

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