4. To make your beads shiny and sealed, thread them on a skewer and brush them with clear nail polish or acrylic sealant. You can rest the skewer across two glasses while the beads dry. 5.

Lorraine Schwartz arrived at a recent Christie’s jewelry auction in New York City wearing a long strand of large lavender jade beads, a chunky ivory bangle embedded with rubies, and a gray ...

The tubular beads made from quahog shells were used ornamentally or ceremonially and also woven into belts as mnemonic devices recording history, traditions, laws, and diplomacy.