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Antique French metal beads: Last produced early 1900's. Most are very tiny, but they have big holes. They make beautiful jewelry. I use them in bead embroidery & Peyote stitch. Take a look at the beaded earrings on our Italian 16/0-22/0 page. The earrings & camels in the design are outlined with antique French metal beads.
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Metalmix 25 is mostly red beads size 20/0 and the other beads are 19/0. Metalmix 33 is size 20 with approximately 75% of the beads being red'ish shades and 25% brass, purple, and green
Metalmix 30 is size 15/0-16/0 beads. Colors are Pink, olivine, and brass. These are like 2-cut beads; not faceted. Metalmix 34 is size 16/0-18/0 and some of the 18/0 beads are faceted. The colors are predominantly brass, red'ish, copper, blue, and green.
Metal mix8: These beads are predominantly a very pretty copper color, with some olive greens mixed in. We estimate there are approximately 75% copper, 20% brass, and 5 % olive. Many of the beads are faceted. Historically one of the most difficult colors for us to present in an image is copper These are a lovely copper color.
Metal mix21: We are thrilled whenever we find the rare size 22/0 antique French Metal beads ! We estimate approximately 50% of the beads are 22/0 with the balance size 20/0; and, approximately 50% steel and 50% brass.
Steel: These beads are the traditional steel cut beads. Size 12/0.
Metal mix10: Size 18/0-19/0 in multiple colors ! This is a nice bead color mix. The majority of the beads are fuschia and we estimate the other colors to be:. 25% brass, 5% steel, 5% black, 5% copper, and .10% gold/yellow.
Metal mix17: Size 19/0-20/0. This mix has approximately and equal mix of steel and brass beads [45% each.] There are two interesting characteristics with this bead mix: 1] we rarely find steel beads this small; and, almost all of the steel beads we have been fortunate to find have been faceted. The steel beads in this lot are not faceted.
Metal mix4: This mix of 16/0-18/0 antique French metal beads may be perfect for bead restorers that might need a few beads of several colors. It includes steel, brass, copper and aluminum beads with the following colors: pink, gold, brass, silver, fuchsia, aqua, copper and green. The steel beads are mostly size 16/0 and most of the colored beads are size 18/0.