Editing Bead (section)

== Shapes ==
Beads can be made in variety of shapes, including the following, as well as tubular and oval-shaped beads.

===Round===
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This is the most common shape of beads that are strung on wire to create necklaces, and bracelets. The shape of the round beads lay together and are pleasing to the eye. Round beads can be made of glass, stone, ceramic, metal, or wood.

===Square or cubed===
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Square beads can be to enhance a necklace design as a spacer however a necklace can be strung with just square beads. The necklaces with square beads are used in [[Rosary]] necklaces/prayer necklaces, and wooden or shell ones are made for beachwear.

===Hair pipe beads===
Elk rib bones were the original material for the long, tubular [[hair pipe]] beads.<ref>Dubin 43, 44</ref> Today these beads are commonly made of [[bison]] and [[water buffalo]] bones and are popular for breastplates and chokers among [[Plains Indians]]. Black variations of these beads are made from the animals' horns.

===Seed beads===
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Seed beads are uniformly shaped spheroidal or tube shaped beads ranging in size from under a millimetre to several millimetres. "Seed bead" is a generic term for any small bead. Usually rounded in shape, seed beads are most commonly used for [[Bead weaving|loom]] and [[Bead weaving|off-loom]] bead weaving.