image13.gif (991 bytes)  Islamic glass beads (700-1450 AC)

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Combed & folded beads

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Eye & layered beads

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Mammeluk glass beads (1250-1450 AC) Murfia.

Unlike in the feather or combed beads, the zig-zag pattern in murfia beads is obtained through inserting alternating left and right spiralling "sugar-cane design" glass rods.

       

       

 

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