Recently I was wondering when humans started using beads. Luckily in this day and age, just a few clicks on my keyboard told me the answer. Archaelogists have determined that humans started using beads approximately 72,000 years ago. Since that time, beads have been used in trade, as hair ornaments, as jewelry, and embedded into fabric. I decided to use beads in my knitting about five years ago when my daughter was planning her wedding. For the occasion, I knitted a wool dress with over 4,000 beads incorporated into the fabric. Although the wedding was to take place in Phoenix, Arizona, in April, I was hoping that the weather would not be too warm. The week before the wedding, the temperatures were in the 90s but fortunately for me, on the wedding day, a cold snap rolled in and my dress was perfect! It took me over two months to knit the dress, and my fascination with bead knitting stopped with that dress.
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