TOHO Glass Seed Bead, Size 6, HYBRID Transparent Capri Blue - Picasso (Tube)

• What are seed beads? Popular, small glass beads commonly used for beadweaving, embellishment, and tiny spacer or accent beads.
• How are they made? Glass is pulled or drawn using a hollow tube, and then the glass is cut in small pieces. They are sometimes reheated to round the ends.
• What's that funny little zero? That zero refers to the number of aughts, which is a unit used to indicate the size of small beads. The scale is inverted, so larger numbers of aughts correspond to smaller beads (i.e. the bigger the number, the smaller the bead). Size 6 would be 000000, but since that takes up too much room, it is abbreviated to 6⁰.
  

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