Please, can you give us a good picture, it's impossible to answer.
Please, can you give us a good picture, it's impossible to answer.
I already do my best to make them look better.
this is more helpful as now i can see that they resemble beads being made and used in Indonesia in recent times of a design similar to the old valuable "Lukut Sekala" beads...
its also always useful if you can give dimensions because its more difficult to make the accurate patterns by hand if a glass bead is very small...
what did your grandmother call them?
Thus, these beads may be the reproductions. Haha, it's ok. They just look so beautiful.The dimensions are about 8mm to 9mm. I remenber there is a story about these beads, something about the wild pig, and "Vavui" is the beads' name in my clan language, and wild pig is its meaning. My grandma passed away for two decades. It's a pity that I can't get the further details about these beads anymore. Anyway, thanks for your helpful answers.
when traditional beads are admired and treasured of course they are copied but i like to think of them as "Tributes" rather than imitations.
And by copying old styles the glassworkers learn good techniques
By the way, the pronunciation of kulut sekala is similar to my clan language, it means skull.
http://beadcollector.net/cgi-bin/anyboard.cgi?fvp=/openforum/&cmd=iYz&aK=41696&iZz=41696&gV=0&kQz=&aO=1&iWz=0Also, if your family has owned the beads in question for more than about ten (10) years, it is very unlikely they are recent Javanese reproductions.
JDA.
http://beadcollector.net/cgi-bin/anyboard.cgi?fvp=/openforum/&cmd=iYz&aK=76294&iZz=76294&gV=0&kQz=&aO=1&iWz=0The upper half of this post concerns mainly Paiwan beads, but is instructive in relation to Borneo and other SEA heirloom beads.
JDA.
