I wonder if the porthole beads your referring to are rosary beads. Some can be made from bone, others from wood, and have probably been reused from broken rosary's.
Perhaps Brian has pictures in his research, if not I can send some to him. Diana Sent from Diana's iPad 'Very little is needed to make a happy life.' > On 1 Jul 2016, at 14:37, Vickie <[email protected]> wrote: > > Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 18:37:44 +0100 > From: Louise <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [lace] Re bead illustrations. > > ........... but there were a couple of oddities one a coarse ceramic and > another organic with odd porthole decoration. I don't know if it is carved > wood or seed of some sort. > > Hello everyone, > > I have several of the same "porthole" type bead spangles in my antique > bobbin collection and would love to hear about what they are/history. Looking > forward to learning from the wealth of information found here as always. > > Thanks you to Louise for taking the time to post pictures of her spangles > for us to see. > > - > To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to > [email protected]. Photo site: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
