This cute little Ladybug flew away too quickly and I only got this shot off.

that cat is NOT a Russian Blue....very pretty cat but not what you think

theres the russian blue smile...I will give you this one. I might not know Russian Blue beads but I do know quite a bit about certain animals.

someone has a bad tooth

This is the end of a log cut from a Pecan tree, I thought the checking of the grain was spectacular!

hello to all, i've been reading and learning from this site for over a year. it seems like i know everyone through the personality that come through your words, its very interesting to just set back and read. the knowlage between you all is 2nd to none and i'm to the point where i have to tap into it. venetian beads are my thing and like many of you, 7 layer chevrons are my passion in the bead world anyway. my first question of many is: how come i have never seen any black 7 layer chevrons on this site, i've been through all the gallery photos and i dont really miss too much forum unless i'm on vacation or out of town. are they that rare? thanks........steve

The first time I met East of Oz, they had a BIG...FAT 7-layer black chevron that they later sold for 3000.00. I got to hold it!

Here it is:

wow, thanks you guys for the great pix. its wonderful to be linked up with the greatest bead minds on the planet. (dont get the big head) i'll be sending my black chevron pictures later tonite. i have two, not the condition or size of your beads but hey you gotta start somewhere right? i'm looking forward to more education....steve

The fourth bead to the right of the center bead is a 7 layer black chevron. I got this bead by accident on a mixed strand. Boy was I ever excited when I found it. Yahoo.

thats a great strand carl, thanks. the false chevron that is about 2 o'clock on that strand, are those fairly common? ...steve

Hello Steve,

I don't think any of the simulated chevrons are common. The disk shaped ones typically referred to ask "tire" beads are more available but not what I would call common. The "false" chevron you are referring to at 2:00 in the earlier shot is not common either. Although many of these were made, most of the ones available today have all of the patterns gone. This particular style of simulated chevron was made by using a white glass molded base and then the chevron design was "painted" on. I have seen many of these with no or very little of the chevron pattern left but very few with the pattern as brilliant as this one.

You can see more of these in Picards book on Chevrons, page 55, #497.

Here is a better shot of the same strand, reworked, yet again.

Carl

heres one i got a while ago,

hey carl, if you dont mind, what is the story behind the red false chevron, the one with the wavey white lines? its at the 3:00 position of the strand.

For an image of a very similar bead, in better condition, see page 27 of Picards CHEVRON AND NUEVA CADIZ BEADS , Volume VII, Beads from the West African Trade. Bead number 79 and 80.

According to Picard, these are wound and lamp worked. The "chevron" end pattern is lamp worked and the outer stripes are applied, white and then blue over that. You can see on my bead that the white stripes are still prevalent but the blue color applied over that is almost gone.

This strand just KNOCKS ME OUT!!!! And, you know very well that there are few beadcollectors if any, that have a strand like this! I can't see enough pictures of it! The seven layer green and seven layer black chevron put it in a class by itself but, you know that already!!!!!!!!!

about a year ago over a broken chevron? Are you now the owner of the two halves?

hi anne, we have email each other before, i belive it was about green 7 layer chevrons you were selling, which turned out to be luigi's beads. i think it was through ebay, does that ring any bells....steve

Hello Steve,

About two years ago, I did a pictorial about "black" chevron beads—including specimens with seven layers. I don't recall whether I posted it here or at NBS.

Here's a small bead, recovered in Peru in the '80s, made with the really unusual "black" glass that is truly neutral—and not merely saturated violet, green, red, nor blue. I have discussed this glass a number of times, as well as color-identification issues. That's why I place "black" in quotes.

Jamey

Here's another early black bead from Peru. This was acquired about some ten years ago, and is a larger bead than the previous.

Jamey

hi jamey, thanks for the pix. is your study posted on a web site somewhere? i'm really interested in what you have found out..steve

Hi Steve,

I've been working on a book about chevron beads since 1980. (I kid you not!) I've written two significant articles about them, published in 1983. One is in the (famous, often spoken of) Conference Proceedings of the Glass Trade Bead Conference (1982) held at Rochester, NY. This is a very useful volume for anyone who wants to know about glass beads, especially in a North American context. The second was a four-part series presented in Ornament magazine. Though 1983 was a L O N G time ago, this remains a worthwhile read.

Apart from that, I composed a very short piece on cutting star beads to achieve certain effects (originally posted at NBS, but now posted at my Yahoo Trade Bead Group—see the URL below), as well as lots of pictorials to illustrate certain characteristics of rosetta beads--here and at NBS.

These are the only things that are on the Net.

Jamey

The contact to obtain this publication can be found on the trades pages.