Sunset Strip, created in 2025 by Kathleen Ryan
The sculpture measures approximately 192cm high x 206cm long x 64cm wide and consists of beads of amethyst, rose quartz, agate, calcite, chalcedony, kyanite, celestite, stilbite, apophyllite, aquamarine, rhodonite, sodalite, quartz, cherry quartz, glass, acrylic, aluminum along with steel pins on coated polystyrene
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Sunday Beady Eye Candy: Pearly Veg!
from a selection of pearly pea pods and sweetcorn pinned with provenance to our Sweepings board on Pinterest
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Nose Ring (nath) from Himachal Pradesh, with a gold crescent-shaped fish design decorated with floral patterned granulation and a fringe of wired-on pearl beads. Weighing 22g, the nose ring measures 6cm high and 5cm wide.
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Sunday Beady Eye Candy : Vintage Beaded Brooches from Stanley Hagler
From a selection pinned with provenance to our Sweepings board on Pinterest, including many pieces in collaboration with Ian St Gielar
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Neo-Babylonian hematite bead, dated circa 8th to 7th century BCE
The 2cm long bead is carved In the form of a frog with bulging eyes and has a hand drilled horizontal hole for threading
Sold at auction by Christies, December 2014
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Sunday Beady Eye Candy : Venetian Cornaline D'Aleppo Beads
From a selection pinned with provenance to our Sweepings board on Pinterest
Source : https://www.picardbeads.com/exhibit12.html
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Strand of lentoid beads from Thebes, Upper Egypt discovered at Wadi Gabbanat el-Qurud, Wadi D, Tomb of the Three Foreign Wives of Thutmose III, Egyptian New Kingdom Dynasty 18, circa 1479-1425 BCE
The beads are created from Egyptian Blue and the strand is 47.5cm long
Now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Accession Number 26.8.69a
Sunday Beady Eye Candy : Aquamarine Bead Jewellery
from a selection pinned with provenance to our Sweepings board on Pinterest
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Roman mosaic glass bead necklace, dated circa 1st Century CE
The necklace measures 82cm long and has been restrung with a modern hook-and-loop closure
Sold at auction by Christies, December 2007
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