The Washington Post, January 28th, 2005
o bead or not to bead is no longer the question. The Washington area's numerous classes, specialty stores and active bead groups are prompting different questions altogether: the creative how and what, the practical where and when, even the anthropological why. As for who, the bead appeals to all ages and cultures -- and has for more than 40,000 years. Beautiful, durable, affordable, portable, the bead is one of our oldest manmade objects. Ancient humans poked holes through shells, strung animal teeth and fashioned disks from ostrich eggshells. "When man's basic needs for food and shelter were...
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