Precursor to Mem Day 2010
May. 27th, 2010 09:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wwcitizenLast weekend, the weekend before summer officially kicks off, Matt and I went into the city on Friday for a bead show. Yep, a "BEAD" show. What's a "BEAD" show, you ask? It's where vendors and jewelry design artists come together to show their wares, their talents, and their products. The last one I attended was outside of Philadelphia in 2002 or so. This one was in NYC.
We had a good time. Matt was VERY patient. He's not as into beads (at all) as I am. He doesn't understand how I am able to sit for hours, pouring over beads and supplies to come up with some beautiful things. Most of my stuff is semi-precious stone bead placement in linear fashion, but I'm starting to get really bored with that and want to branch out into other things. Hence, the bead show (BTW, I also make bracelets, anklets, and earrings on consignment and for general sale).
I'll be posting some of my stuff on eBay and will provide links and pictures when I do in the next week or so. I just want to make sure that I've gotten a good collection of things to post so that people can "shop" a little at my store.
One of the most interesting things about bead shows is that they typically draw out vendors who invest 1000s of dollars on HUGE lots of beads and materials - wholesale - in order to give us really good, still much less than retail prices on supplies.
Another type of vendor that shows up is kind of like me - investing in specialized and sometimes ancient beads. Venetian, African, Indian, Persian, and even Philistinian trade beads are some of the examples. I bought two sets of 300-yr-old African glass bottle beads as well as two sets of 2000-yr-old Roman glass beads. Yes, I said 2000 (two thousand) years old!! The Roman glass is on display at a NYC museum - I believe the MET - and the guy who excavates ancient Roman trash dumps sells lesser quality glass objects to this distributor that I met. I was VERY excited.
Here's a link to the show pictures - we only took a few. These are on Flickr (hate Flickr...).
We had a good time. Matt was VERY patient. He's not as into beads (at all) as I am. He doesn't understand how I am able to sit for hours, pouring over beads and supplies to come up with some beautiful things. Most of my stuff is semi-precious stone bead placement in linear fashion, but I'm starting to get really bored with that and want to branch out into other things. Hence, the bead show (BTW, I also make bracelets, anklets, and earrings on consignment and for general sale).
I'll be posting some of my stuff on eBay and will provide links and pictures when I do in the next week or so. I just want to make sure that I've gotten a good collection of things to post so that people can "shop" a little at my store.
One of the most interesting things about bead shows is that they typically draw out vendors who invest 1000s of dollars on HUGE lots of beads and materials - wholesale - in order to give us really good, still much less than retail prices on supplies.
Another type of vendor that shows up is kind of like me - investing in specialized and sometimes ancient beads. Venetian, African, Indian, Persian, and even Philistinian trade beads are some of the examples. I bought two sets of 300-yr-old African glass bottle beads as well as two sets of 2000-yr-old Roman glass beads. Yes, I said 2000 (two thousand) years old!! The Roman glass is on display at a NYC museum - I believe the MET - and the guy who excavates ancient Roman trash dumps sells lesser quality glass objects to this distributor that I met. I was VERY excited.
Here's a link to the show pictures - we only took a few. These are on Flickr (hate Flickr...).
