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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 9530107, member: 2844&quot;]I think we have to disagree on this one.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>The technique you describe is the &quot;rosetta&quot; technique, which can result in chevron beads, depending on the look.</p><p>Chevron beads are called after the double (opposing) chevron shapes all around the outside, hence the name. Chevron shapes are angular shapes, and in the case of chevron beads they are opposing, like diamond shapes.</p><p><br /></p><p>I used to sell chevron beads to African buyers, and both they and European collectors are quite picky about the definition, and most say: No chevrons, not a chevron bead. To them it is about the esthetics of the bead, not the rosetta technique as such.</p><p>I agree that there is one (maybe two) bead that comes close to having chevrons all around the outside, and could be called a chevron bead. The others are not. I don&#039;t think my African buyers would have accepted them though.</p><p>So their opinion and that of collectors here would be that these are rosetta beads, and I follow that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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