It seems difficult to believe that some six months have passed since I made my first trip to Indonesia—specifically Bali and Java—where I documented glass-beadmaking and acquired quite a few specimens of that work.

I am just about to compose my Diary of the trip; but I have formatted a number of photographs into Jpegs to post here. So I'll begin putting them up today, and I'll fill-in with shots I took of the beads upon my return, as I have time.

The itinerary we arranged called for a few days in Bangkok, Thailand, to get acclimated to Asia, and to visit my friend Walt Seifried and see the Chatuchak (or Jatujak) market where most of the bead-sellers congregate. From there we flew to Bali, spent a few days shopping for beads, and then flew to Surabaya to meet the rest of our crew, to visit beadmaking factories near Jombang (Central Java). After some days in Java, we returned to Bali, and bought additional beads, many of these coming from Jember—the region we had intended to go to, but that we didn't make it to due to circumstances beyond my control.

I'll attempt to show all this in photographs, though some of the early and late Bali beads will be put together at the end (in terms of acquisition on this trip).

Jamey