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Medieval European Beadwork Illuminated: Historical Research by Jen Funk Segrest
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Articles & Papers
Recreation of 13-14th century woven fringe from altar frontals
Article: Purses and the Charitable Gift, Journal of Social History – Hannah Robb
Women as Makers of Church Decoration: Illustrated Textiles at the Monasteries of Altenberg/Lahn, Ruppertsberg, and Heiningen (13th-14th. C.)
CLASS: Introduction to Beadwork in period by THL Grizel
https://www.bildindex.de/
https://st.museum-digital.de/
A Needle’s Breadth Apart: The Unexplored Relationship Between Medieval Embroidery and Manuscript Illumination
The Linköping Mitre: Ecclesiastical Textiles and Episcopal Identity
THE BEADS OF TENTH- TO TWELFTH-CENTURY HUNGARY
Society of Bead Researchers
The trade of glass beads in early medieval Illyricum: towards an Islamic monopoly
Beads from Dorestad
Beads and beadmaking in the early medieval settlement of Oegstgeest
Market strategies in a late medieval craft: bone bead production in Constance and elsewhere
Documenting Historical Beadwork
The German-Czech Bead Industry
Early medieval glass beads: witness to changes in central Europe – the case of Hostivice (Czech Republic)
On Beads and Boats: Merovingian beads travelling through time and space
Analysis of early medieval glass beads – Glass in the transition period
REUNION: THE BEA’D GEES
Outside link: Veil and Edge Beading
My V&A visit notes and Pictures
Pictorial History of Beadwork
Cheat Sheet: German Terminology