And now for something completely different.
A collection of approximately 330 assorted big, black, bold, and beautiful glass beads that may offer an exciting new canvas for paint brush artists.
The beads are also perfect ingredients for making large, oversized, and chunky jewellery, eye-catching hangers, or hangings.
The collection comprises 14 shapes, including diamonds, hearts, slabs, flowers, gourds, twists, cylinders, and tiles.
Each bead measures between 10mm and 60mm, and, depending on size, come with a large 1.5mm-3mm centre-drill hole which makes them suitable for most threading materials such as leather, Tigertail, wire, or fishing line.
Well-priced at $0.11 per bead.
The beads come alive when splashes of vibrant colours are applied to the mostly flat surfaces, as the attached photographs illustrate.
Either acrylic or oil paint are suitable to use in dressing up the beads – or keep them black to provide contrast to your work.
For beaders familiar with Margaret River Beads range, this collection of unpainted jet-black glass beads are identical in shape to their popular Indian cousins in the Silver Foil range.