Rollo (Rolo sometimes) chains are made from half-round wire. Belcher & Rolo - Belchers are chains that are made from uniform round or oval links made from low dome or flat stock wire.
Earring Styles - or - Excuse me - but my ears are.Oh, and wave nuggets - at least we still have those! Hence these mostly long gone: Squooshagons, Spheroids, Lumpies, Squashies, Squops, and other ill-defined shapes. Swarovski, of course, names it's own shapes, some of them with non-obvious names, such as Polygon, Graphic, and Cosmic.īy the same token, we invent our own names to describe shapes - trying to be as descriptive and evocative as possible. Some "hearts" are only in the ballpark of heart-iness - so to speak. Hearts are, well - heart-shaped - although there are a lot of liberties taken with the double-curved-top, pointed-bottom shape. It refers to there being a "window" cut into the bead. Window beads are made with a core colour, with a different outer layer encased over the entire bead, which is ground and polished away in some places. Window beads are a technique, as opposed to a shape. I've also seen these referred to as "Cathedral" cut. As we got into more shapes of stone beads, Nuggets morphed in to pebbles, chunks, boulders, and the like to indicate differences in size and cragginess.Ī Lantern is a faceted bead with the ends coloured and textured differently, usually metallic. Chips usually reserved for stone beads are smaller and flatter. Nuggets are also fairly hard to define, irregular shapes (faceted or smooth). When they arrived in a larger size, I felt we had no choice but to call them "Monster Tims." -)īaroque refers to an irregular, lumpy shape. We also have a line of beads known as "Tiny Tims" - cute little drop shaped beads. These beads also look great in any fringe-y application, such as those little amulet bags, or a purse or jacket.ĭaggers are their own category of "drop." These flat-bladed drops can be scary spiky if used all together in bunches (although they do not feel sharp - they may look uncomfortable, but they aren't!) Plenty of other styles of beads are designed to hang down, so the term "drop" also gets used to indicate a bead that is designed to hang - as opposed to being oriented horizontally.
They also look elegant on their own, and so can used alone for earrings, etc. When you string them side by side, they snuggle together and create a great look, usually quite organic. This too - harks to its roots as a gem-stone-cut name.ĭrop beads - beads shaped like drops of water - are a large category, and are great for texture - although tricky to calculate in advance how many you need. :-PĪ Briolette - is also a pear shape - but tends to refer to crystal beads, and is always faceted. But then, we used to carry these "Butlet Pears." Which I thought were fairly hideous. One might have expected a pear to be shaped, well, more like a pear, which is to say - more rounded on the top. Occasionally - they will be "vertically" drilled - with the hole running the length of the longest axis. That hole may run from one side of the bead to the other, or from the front to the back. So it is fair to say that most "pear" shapes are top-drilled. Top-drilled means that the hole is near one end of the bead - the end that will be the top once it is strung. When we want to talk about the holes that have been put into a bead to string them on - we talk about how they are drilled. And sometimes you will see it referred to as a pear drop - to emphasis that is droplet shape. This, came, I think, from the same shape in gems. In defiance of all logic, "pear" shape is rounded at one end, and pointed at the other - much like a raindrop or tear drop. Today - let's tackle the more, for what of a better term, "exotic" shapes. Last Monday - I reviewed some basic bead shapes - shapes that are essentially round, oval or rectangular, and their various names.
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