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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marie Forjan, post: 384703, member: 147&quot;]I think I should know how these beads are made, I just can&#039;t come up with it. I tested them and the metal is sterling. It looks like the silver pieces are embedded in a black ground like damascene but it doesn&#039;t look like the damascene I am used to seeing.</p><p><br /></p><p>The surface of the black looks mat, almost porous. It looks through a loupe like after the silver was inset the surface was filed or sanded to make both the metal and the black ground the same hight. Does that make sense?</p><p><br /></p><p>I posted this on one of eBoo&#039;s boards and got suggestions of damascene, niello, wood, horn and pique. I don&#039;t think wood or horn because I don&#039;t see wood grain or the texture I would expect from horn. Someone suggested tribal, I just don&#039;t know, I googled all of them and can&#039;t find a match. This is the closets thing I found but it is clearly wood and much more primitively done.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, if anyone had any ideas I would be very grateful <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]133043[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]133044[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]133045[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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