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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 4336116, member: 2844"]Yes, the beads commonly sold as African (pressed) copal are actually resin.</p><p>They are German-made phenolic resin beads from the 1920s and 30s, mostly made for the African market, some coral coloured, but most were amber coloured.</p><p>Those beads are also found in the gorgeous long chunky bead necklaces European 'Bohemian' ladies wore during the Art Deco period.</p><p><br /></p><p>The correct term for phenolic resin is phenol-formaldehyde thermosetting resin, but that is quite a mouthful.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=17467]@Simona Buhus[/USER] , I can't find the 'Moroccan ladies melting plastic for beads' video.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/frown.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":(" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 4336116, member: 2844"]Yes, the beads commonly sold as African (pressed) copal are actually resin. They are German-made phenolic resin beads from the 1920s and 30s, mostly made for the African market, some coral coloured, but most were amber coloured. Those beads are also found in the gorgeous long chunky bead necklaces European 'Bohemian' ladies wore during the Art Deco period. The correct term for phenolic resin is phenol-formaldehyde thermosetting resin, but that is quite a mouthful.;) [USER=17467]@Simona Buhus[/USER] , I can't find the 'Moroccan ladies melting plastic for beads' video.:([/QUOTE]
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