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Message:: [QUOTE="Northern Lights Lodge, post: 4299848, member: 13464"][USER=602]@Aquitaine[/USER]Awesome! I'll have to give it a whirl! I think that will be the berries I've given the "bead loss" a lot of thought. I agree heartily that there are beads missing. However, as someone who dealt for 13 years with "bead loss" at a bridal salon.... it didn't quite look right to me. I finally figured out why! Unless someone went to all the bother of "pulling back" or cut off all the loose ends which would have been created by bead loss - which I kind of doubt... there are no loose threads hanging out. At least I can't SEE any in the photos... if they are there my theory is kapoot!  If they had just "cut the threads off" - there would be beads falling every time anyone handled the bag.... leaving long bead threads hanging out again. My thought process then leads me to believe that the pieces were "pre beaded" - probably filling a stamped outline... probably AFTER the chain stitching was applied. And then whomever put the chain stitched, beaded pieces together - did a poor job and sewing the pieces together; leaving unbeaded gaps. It strikes me that even if that had occurred; that a "good" needleworker/beader...would fill in the cloth gaps with beads. I don't think that occurred. My 2 cents...Cheerio Leslie[/QUOTE]