Featured Seed bead necklace

I feel like I should know what type of necklace this is, but I don’t. Just wondering what it’s called, where it’s from and age. It almost looks Native American to me, but I don’t think that is quite right. It is a very long necklace. Thanks!

 

meaning no disrespect...
those are crappy cut tube beads poorly twisted up on cheap wire ..
anyone wearing that....will Bleed !!!

 

No offense taken. They won’t make you bleed. The wire is too thin for that. They just get twisted up into a big mess. So these are home strung? Kinda like a like a friendship bracelet I suppose? I have seen this done before. Like maybe a hippie thing? See, no bleeding.

 

I believe these were made in India sometime during the 1970s or thereabouts. I started finding them in thrift stores in the mid 1980s, and once found a large duffle bag FULL of sandwich size bags which were in turn full of individual necklaces bagged separately- so like 50 or so necklaces per bag. They had ‘made in India’ stickers and I sold tons of them……and did call them hippie beads - still have some of them packed away, if I knew where to look I’d dig ‘em out for you - no idea, but will post if they surface!

 

Agree, India. I saw them in the 60s as well. Probably wore them too.

The beads are typical of low quality Indian production of the time, not the good quality of the Czech/Bohemian beads many Native Americans use.
I have never seen Native American beadwork on metal wire links like this.

 

Native American seed bead work is very finely woven. So I knew that was not right, it just had a vibe to it. Maybe that 70’s hippie heishi vibe. I don’t really know. And yes I know heishi is also very finely done and not comparative to these beads. Maybe it was just the era. Anyhoo, thanks now I know where and when.

 

They had ‘made in India’ stickers and I sold tons of them……and did call them hippie beads

A while back, I saw someone selling them as antique (Victorian I think) beads. They had sold for them for quite a bit. But I knew that was not quite right either.

 

@Any Jewelry they do seem more 1960s style, don’t they? I believe Janis Joplin wore similar long necklaces by the dozens….. a 1920s thing as well, before Miss J.

@cfh - By the way, before I found the mother lode I wore the few bits I found as both necklaces and bracelets and never had any cuts from them. The wire ends are tucked inside the beads and even though they seem haphazard they are quite sturdy.
Because I had such a surplus (and an overactive imagination) I used them for many different things, even made a beaded fringe for a lampshade!

 

Absolutely, for both periods.

My kind of person.

 

I LOVE Janis Joplin ! I once had a lamp shade made from Mardi Gras beads (when they were actually glass!) that a guy had fused all together. I loved that shade and was heartbroken when it got broken during a move.Never seen another like it.