apart from in Africa, Borneo, and the far east?

Hi Stefany -
Interesting that you should ask about yellows. My two cents on the subject as an amateur fashionista is that several factors are involved in the apparent tendency of Westerners to not favor yellows, particularly the earthy yellows. One, in the West people tend very much to like the so-called jewel tones - cool colors like blue, green, black, white, blue-reds, purples, silver - and also tend to prefer glossy and glittery jewelry over matte finishes. If you look at the major fashion house collections, about 75-80% of the time, they are based on cool colors, not warm ones. Cool colors are generally considered more "classic".

Just the opposite appears to be the case in the less developed world - earth tones are favored (although jewel tones are widespread as well) and shiny beads do not get as much attention as the matte ones.

Also, lighter colors like yellow, and white, look more dramatic on dark skin than on white skin. I have found for example that it's hard to wear necklaces of predominately white trade beads. They do not look good up against my skin, which has a yellow undertone. However the mustard yellow beads look fine so I have a good number of necklaces of yellow trade beads. But it seems that the darker yellows all look much better than the pale yellows - and I think this is just a mater of contrast. Anytime beads (or clothing for that matter) get too close to one's skin color, the colors tend to "fight" and do not look good.

...I actually picked out a colour for my friend's office/library...it is Lowes' Olympia paint called "Welcome Home." It definitely has yellow in it. He wanted beige. He was away, so I thought the colour was appropriate.

Anyway, I have some of the Bohemian pigeon egg beads in yellow, not in red. My problem is that I like a lot of things in many colours, but I do prefer some over others, but then it just depends on context.

...it's even in the rug. Not a great pic, just shot something quick. Funny, because while searching for beads I still can not find, I remembered that I had seen these yellow "pigeon eggs." And, you even prompted a vacuuming of the rug.

As is orange. It took me at least fifty years to learn to love yellows and oranges and red oranges. I was so into blues and purples and whites and that end of the spectrum. Orange came into my life when I finally saw that purple and blue go well with it. After that, it was easy. Yellows and oranges are striking with a lot of things.

...where the designer Laurie had made over a room using browns and oranges. The owner cried...not in a good way, they absolutely hated the room. I loved it and thought it looked great. I miss that show.

You are so right about yellow and Orange being an aquired taste, and ditto it took me 50 yrs to come to love them! I started by mixing Lemon with pinks, lovely combination. Orange is beautiful as long as its cirtus and sharp ( Yes I do mean the colour )This colour looks great as a spacer bead in between bright Millefiori beads, as long as they are much smaller than the feature beads. Maybe we embrace these colours as we get older ? Or is it that some of us grew up in kitchens of bright green , Orange and Purple and just wanted to forget it all !!!

Yes. Who can forget Avocado and Harvest Gold refrigerators?

Many yellows make my rather pink complexion look jaundiced.....so I avoid the really "acid" yellows. I like Mellow Yellow, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64mb_hUOb4g

I realized one day I have very few yellow beads except for a few opaque Czech beads from 'Christmas' strands. When I began looking, the supply was low, my pickiness great. I've acquired a small baggie of yellow beads over the years... perhaps a necklace will emerge from it eventually. Doesn't matter if I wear it... will good hanging with the other colors.

My first necklace ever was made of orange and yellow beads... love beads. I still have it, mostly seed and E beads, with some drawn stripes. I was a teeny bopper of the late 1960s. Peter Max was in, white lipstick and ratted flips, bright mod colors.

I made this necklace more than a decade ago.
Admitedly, it has NOT been much appreciated.
The center area is composed of old yellow amber pebble-cut beads from the African Trade, with recent Dominican amber spheres strung in between. The former beads have sockets adjacent to the perforations -- I ignore wether made on purpose or by years of rubbing against harder neighbours -- that allow the spheres to slip in and freely rotate.
The glass cylinder African Trade beads were I guess made in Venice. I got them from Rita Okrent on March,2002 and like them a lot: this pungent Colman's Mustard yellow color, as much as their n*I*cely prickled surfaces. Tiny Dominican amber beads freely revolve inside semispherical sockets, created by careful grinding of their ends -- a providence that makes necklaces more compact, with beads looking like they really "belong there".
The focally used metallic elements are contemporary 18k Indian gold.

...and while I like all of the beads you've used, I'm thinking maybe darker beads in place of the yellow cylinders would make the focal amber beads pop. But, your attention to the details is amazing, which is why your work has been exhibited in a museum.

Just my worthless two cents that no one has solicited.

...but, I thought you once showed a necklace that you designed that was going to be exhibited at a show or Museum in Paris? No? I would swear you even showed the piece here.

In September,2012, on the ocassion of the Parcours des Mondes annual show in Paris, some of my necklaces were displayed in an adjacent room at the gallery of African Art dealer David Serra.
The pièce-de-résistance was TORC-II, a versatile rigid necklace with a device allowing its center piece to be replaced according to the wearer's mood.
I was myself too lazy, and shy, and miser, to attend the show in person, but my works were reportedly HOT.
No sales, though.

instead of "The Works of"...excusez-moi.

Another one made many years ago, in fact the rendering of another recently sold necklace -- a practice I rarely indulged in, discontinued since: the happy owner visited me some months after his purchase and seeing this unexpected identical sibling hanging from a nail, was sourly displeased. I lost a customer then and there.
Venetian mille and Blue Dogon glass rings, strung on a linkless Indian silver chain, with Indian silver fittings.

...though I personally do not like having large beads on the back of my neck.

Again, my worthless two cents. I like the choice of beads, otherwise.