The Frost Trade Bead Collection Gallery
Larger Beads
Detail of Lamp-wound Beads
These larger beads are decorated with metal foil and threads and dots of colored glass. Threads of glass were heated with a lamp or torch and then wrapped in patterns on the surface of the inner bead.Collection of the Illinois State Museum
Photographed by Gary Andrashko, ISM
ISM Accession #: 1941-0083
