bead

Summary

bead ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,577 views/month).^[1]

Key Facts

• bead is a type of work of art^[2].
• bead is a type of material^[3].
• bead is a type of art material^[4].
• bead's Commons category is recorded as Beads^[5].
• bead's said to be the same as is recorded as Q117886094^[6].
• bead's earliest date is recorded as -13000-00-00T00:00:00Z^[7].
• bead's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[8].
• bead's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary^[9].
• bead's described by source is recorded as Diccionario del español de México^[10].
• bead's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)^[11].
• bead's has characteristic is recorded as through hole^[12].
• bead's different from is recorded as pearl^[13].
• bead's different from is recorded as cultured pearl^[14].
• bead's different from is recorded as imitation pearl^[15].
• bead's fabrication method is recorded as beadmaking^[16].
• bead's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Craft^[17].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include work of art^[2], material^[3], and art material^[4].

Why It Matters

bead ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,577 views/month).^[1] bead has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[18] bead is known by 65 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[19]