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KERAMIC STUDIO 
PALM JAR AND TRAY— (Page 129) 
Alice B. Sharrard 
OUTLINE all in Black. Top part of jar is Deep Chrome 
Green, also trees and connecting bands. Ground be- 
hind camel Pale Yellow Ochre, side panels Yellow Brown 
tone used with a bit of Blue Green. Ground of trees and bowl, 
Old Ivory, Camel delicate shade of Trenton Ivory. Trappings 
cover Delft Blue with Orange, Ruby Purple, Sap Green, Band- 
ing Blue and Egg Yellow in' border. Ribbons, Ruby Purple 
and Blood Red, also tassels. Conventional border: ground, 
Copenhagen Blue one part, Delft Blue one part. Figure, 
Chrome Green or Grass Green, on a ground of Orange Yellow. 
Center of figures Capucine with touch of Ruby, and Orange 
Red ground. Light figures Pale Ivory to match ground of 
jar. Gold can be used for small border in dark parts, also to 
touch up parts of the camel's trappings. Keep all colors in 
low tones except the Egyptian borders, these should be rich 
in color. This makes a charming gift for the Christmas season. 
HAND DECORATED BEADS 
Ida Diana Ekbergh 
ONE of the distinguished peculiarities of the human race, 
especially the feminine world, is its liking for personal 
adornment and eventually the love of the beautiful in any form. 
I In the early days of the Egyptian civilization the craving 
for personal adornment appears to have been satisfied by 
necklaces and bracelets of pierced shells, seeds, and very often 
sparkling pebbles and stones of unusual shape and color. 
Later on appeared marvelously decorated beads that the Egypt- 
ians were past masters in the art of stringing into necklaces. 
Hand decorated beads in America is decidedly a novelty. 
We usually find them in the Orient. The Japanese and Chinese 
produce hand wrought beads known as netsukes. These are 
used as buttons or toggles on cords with which they unite 
their garments. Many of these are made of Satsuma and 
hand decorated. 
There is no reason why we shouldn't be able to decorate 
beads in this country. I am sure that it would be possible 
to create a demand for this new American novelty. In speak- 
ing with a Japanese importer recently, whose father is a 
Satsuma potter in Japan, he told me that they would take 
orders for undecorated Satsuma beads of any size and quantity 
desired, provided a correct model was given him of the size 
of bead desired. The bead importers sell china or porcelain 
beads that could be used for this purpose, providing they will 
stand the firing. The strand of decorated beads illustrated, 
I came across in an Oriental bazaar, but I do not consider 
them as practical as the Satsuma beads would undoubtedly be. 
First of all you transfer your design to the surface of the 
bead. When this is accomplished, mount your bead on the 
point of a match, the match whittled to fit the opening of the 
bead, and thus mounted you proceed with your decoration. 
As each bead is decorated, make a little hole in the top of a 
card box into which you set your mounted bead. All of the 
beads are treated in just this way, therefore it is well to pre- 
pare your matches before hand, as many matches as you have 
beads to decorate, and too, make the same number of holes 
in the top of your card board box on which the beads are 
suspended on their "crutch" while drying. When your beads 
are thoroughly dry, string them on an asbestos cord with a 
knot in between each bead, so that the decorated beads do 
not touch one another in firing. The background of the beads 
. are ivory tone in tint, out of which rises the blue, pink, and 
violet figures with their tiny golden leaves — enamels were 
used in the decoration of these quaint looking beads. In 
firing, the beads must be suspended in the kiln and not laid 
out flat of course; an iron pole across the kiln answers the 
purpose on which to hang them. 
I might add that the most wonderful effects are produced 
with lustres on these beads. I made a necklace, using beads 
with a white background, giving several coats of Mother of 
Pearl lustre and — well, they certainly were different with a 
vengeance! 
I will be glad to answer any questions about these beads. 
Letters of inquiry should be sent to my address, 1289 Cleve- 
land Ave., St. Paul, Minn, and should enclose a postage 
stamp for answer. 
BEAD NECKLACE 
