beadworking

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noun

The activity of making beadwork.

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Meanings

nounbeadworking (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe activity of making beadwork.

    Beadworking may well be one of modern humans’ earliest surviving crafts.

    2017 September 7, Paul Bahn, Archaeology: The Essential Guide to Our Human Past, Smithsonian Institution, page 37
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    In the most common beadworking technique, the beads were strung on a thread and laid along the surface to which they were attached.

    1979, David Goodman Mandelbaum, The Plains Cree: An Ethnographic, Historical, and Comparative Study, volume 9, University of Regina Press, page 101

    Other crafts include basket weaving, beadworking, brass and bronze working, calabash carving and painting, embroidery, and leather working.

    2024 October 12, Wikipedia contributors, “Cameroon”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation

Origin

From beadwork + -ing.

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