Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Powder_glass_beads> ?p ?o }
Showing triples 1 to 62 of
62
with 100 triples per page.
- Powder_glass_beads abstract "The earliest powder glass beads on record were discovered during archaeological excavations at Mapungubwe, in present-day [South Africa], and dated to 970-1000 CE. In our time, the main area of powder glass bead manufacture is West Africa, most importantly, Ghana. The origins of beadmaking in Ghana are unknown, but the great majority of powder glass beads produced today is made by Ashanti and Krobo craftsmen and women. Krobo bead making has been documented to date from as early as the 1920s but despite limited archaeological evidence, it is believed that Ghanaian powder glass bead making dates further back. Bead making in Ghana was first documented by John Barbot in 1746. Beads still play important roles in Krobo society, be it in rituals of birth, coming of age, marriage, or death. Powder glass beads are made from finely ground glass, the main source being broken and unusable bottles and a great variety of other scrap glasses. Special glasses such as old cobalt medicine bottles, cold cream jars, and many other types of glasses from plates, ashtrays, window panes - to name only a few - are occasionally bought new, just for the purpose. Pulverized or merely fragmented, and made into beads, these glasses yield particularly bright colours and shiny surfaces. Modern ceramic colourants, finely ground broken beads, or shards of different coloured glasses from various sources can be added to create a great variety of styles, designs and decorative patterns in many different colours. In addition, glass bead fragments of varying sizes, which have traditionally been used for the manufacture as well as for the decoration of specific types of beads, can now be found in interesting new combinations, and during the past few years in particular, bead makers have taken this tradition yet another step forward by using entire, i.e. whole small beads for making their colourful bead creations.".
- Powder_glass_beads thumbnail Pgbeads.JPG?width=300.
- Powder_glass_beads wikiPageExternalLink beadmaking.htm.
- Powder_glass_beads wikiPageExternalLink glassbeadmaking.htm.
- Powder_glass_beads wikiPageExternalLink djaba.
- Powder_glass_beads wikiPageExternalLink bead-making.htm.
- Powder_glass_beads wikiPageExternalLink www.thebeadchest.com.
- Powder_glass_beads wikiPageID "6824152".
- Powder_glass_beads wikiPageLength "8608".
- Powder_glass_beads wikiPageOutDegree "31".
- Powder_glass_beads wikiPageRevisionID "699618796".
- Powder_glass_beads wikiPageWikiLink Ashanti_people.
- Powder_glass_beads wikiPageWikiLink Bicone.
- Powder_glass_beads wikiPageWikiLink Cassava.
- Powder_glass_beads wikiPageWikiLink Category:Beadwork.
- Powder_glass_beads wikiPageWikiLink Category:Glass_art.
- Powder_glass_beads wikiPageWikiLink Clay.
- Powder_glass_beads wikiPageWikiLink Equator.
- Powder_glass_beads wikiPageWikiLink Ghana.
- Powder_glass_beads wikiPageWikiLink Horizontal_plane.
- Powder_glass_beads wikiPageWikiLink Kiln.
- Powder_glass_beads wikiPageWikiLink Kingdom_of_Mapungubwe.
- Powder_glass_beads wikiPageWikiLink Krobo.
- Powder_glass_beads wikiPageWikiLink Mold.
- Powder_glass_beads wikiPageWikiLink Nigeria.
- Powder_glass_beads wikiPageWikiLink Opacity_(optics).
- Powder_glass_beads wikiPageWikiLink Precious_coral.
- Powder_glass_beads wikiPageWikiLink Sphere.
- Powder_glass_beads wikiPageWikiLink Togo.
- Powder_glass_beads wikiPageWikiLink Transparency_and_translucency.
- Powder_glass_beads wikiPageWikiLink Vertical_direction.
- Powder_glass_beads wikiPageWikiLink Yoruba_people.
- Powder_glass_beads wikiPageWikiLink File:Making_of_traditional_Ghanaian_glassbeads._the_templates_with_powdered_glass_ready_for_the_oven.JPG.
- Powder_glass_beads wikiPageWikiLink File:Pgbeads.JPG.
- Powder_glass_beads wikiPageWikiLink File:Pgbeads2.JPG.
- Powder_glass_beads wikiPageWikiLink File:Pgbeads3.JPG.
- Powder_glass_beads wikiPageWikiLink File:Pgbeads4.JPG.
- Powder_glass_beads wikiPageWikiLink File:Pgbeads5.JPG.
- Powder_glass_beads wikiPageWikiLink File:Pgbeads6.JPG.
- Powder_glass_beads wikiPageWikiLink File:Pgbeads7.JPG.
- Powder_glass_beads wikiPageWikiLink File:Pgbeads8.JPG.
- Powder_glass_beads wikiPageWikiLink File:Polishing_of_Ghanaian_glass_beads.JPG.
- Powder_glass_beads wikiPageWikiLinkText "glass beads".
- Powder_glass_beads wikiPageWikiLinkText "powder glass beads".
- Powder_glass_beads wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Beadwork.
- Powder_glass_beads wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Cite_journal.
- Powder_glass_beads wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Main.
- Powder_glass_beads wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Powder_glass_beads subject Category:Beadwork.
- Powder_glass_beads subject Category:Glass_art.
- Powder_glass_beads type Genre.
- Powder_glass_beads type Application.
- Powder_glass_beads type Art.
- Powder_glass_beads type Genre.
- Powder_glass_beads comment "The earliest powder glass beads on record were discovered during archaeological excavations at Mapungubwe, in present-day [South Africa], and dated to 970-1000 CE. In our time, the main area of powder glass bead manufacture is West Africa, most importantly, Ghana. The origins of beadmaking in Ghana are unknown, but the great majority of powder glass beads produced today is made by Ashanti and Krobo craftsmen and women.".
- Powder_glass_beads label "Powder glass beads".
- Powder_glass_beads sameAs Q7236011.
- Powder_glass_beads sameAs m.0gqzjs.
- Powder_glass_beads sameAs Q7236011.
- Powder_glass_beads wasDerivedFrom Powder_glass_beads?oldid=699618796.
- Powder_glass_beads depiction Pgbeads.JPG.
- Powder_glass_beads isPrimaryTopicOf Powder_glass_beads.