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Artwork Types > Beadwork
Decorative assembly of beads, usually incorporated into a piece of weaving, netting, or knitting or sewn on to a ground.
1992–2017
c. 1000–1500
1840–50
1880–1910
c. 1790
before 1870
19th–20th century
c. 1850–present
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