CrossEyedCrafts

Gold with many many blue crystals.

Glass beads with a pearly luster.

Placing a larger bead on opposite sides of the cylinder creates a flattened silver rope.

…beginning to turn away from the gold and silver as the sun warms and Spring begins to move in.

Small silver beads with a winding string of larger beads; silver beads with a blue glass bead; one rope closed with two matched silver rings; silver with spots of gold beads; silver with iridescent blue crystals.

…closer

Gold filled beads and Swarovski crystals. The one on the far left has crystals surrounded by a ring of sterling silver beads.

…closer

Apologies for the poorly focused image.

Are they plated? No, they’re…”filled”? But the gold wouldn’t be just on the inside, right? No, it’s the gold on the outside that makes the beads shiny and desirable, so again, what does “gold filled” mean?

According to Ebay’s “Silver & Gold Buying Guide & Definitions”, “Gold Filled is another material that is overlaid by a mechanical process with a layer of gold” [continued].