Beading Tools for Making Rock & Gemstone Jewelry

Video Transcript

"Hi there! On behalf of expertvillage.com my name is Candace Copeland. I'm here to tell you a little bit about the collection and all the different types of beads that I look for when I'm traveling. They can be anywhere from something made out of stone, to something made out of lave rock. They can be made out of metal. This is cloisonné, which is another form. A lot of this is done in China. It could be like this. These little hand made copper pounded beads. These are from Tibet. Speaking of Tibet, these pieces also are from Tibet and they have amazing silver work. It's also on the back as well as on the front and laid with mother pearl. This is an old conch shell. Shell's been used forever and this is the ohm symbol. Then it has all been incased in sterling silver; some of my favorite things to work with. This is from the hill tribes of Thailand. They do again fabulous little beads of all kinds of shapes. Hammered, smooth, whatever, gorgeous pieces. This is some of my newest finds. It's an old belt from Nagaland. Well the cross is Ethiopian, but these little pieces are parts of a belt. You can see here, I've made where I take the belt apart and each little piece is separate, individual. Look at this one. It's all worn down, but sometimes that really makes it interesting because it is so worn. Then there this. This is copal. This is what you get before it turns into amber. This isn't quite as old as amber, but it makes a really rich look. Especially when you're using it with big red mountain coral and turquoise. Again, bit in Tibet and Nepal. These colors they felt were very protective. This is an amazing pendent put together with both green and blue turquoise and your red coral. These are antique dogon beads from Africa. Beautiful, beautiful piece. This is a bead from Istanbul. Little inlaid hearts on this beautiful little beads. I hope you can see the details, quite extraordinary. These are findings. These are little things that go in between, so you have have lots of little boxes of those. I have tons of little boxes all of that kind of thing. This is a little box of different clasps and things are like that. "