11SV8012-3: Antique Venetian 11/0 Seed Bead Greasy White #3 - 10 Grams is backordered and will ship as soon as it is back in stock.
Read this before you order if you are matching a white: these are not opaque. Greasy glass is semi-translucent, so light enters each bead and diffuses inside it rather than stopping at the surface. Against an opaque chalk white they look softer and slightly grey; in mass they read as a cool, milky, faintly blue-leaning white rather than a flat one. If your reference piece used an opaque white, this is the wrong material no matter how well the hue agrees.
What greasy means, and why it is match-critical. Greasy is a property of the glass formula itself, not a coating — which is why it cannot wear off, and why no modern bead reproduces it convincingly. The degree of translucency varies bead to bead: some read nearly opaque, others are clearly glassy, and both are authentically greasy. Set beside opaline, which carries a pearlescent sheen at the surface, greasy is the quieter of the two — the glow is internal, with no shell-like cast on top.
Lot character. Dark specks in the perforations are normal for this stock — kiln and annealing debris from period production rather than anything introduced since. Because the glass is semi-translucent they show more readily than they would in an opaque bead. For count-critical or uniform-face work, plan on a pre-sort.
Sizing and threading. SVC 11/0 runs 2.20–2.50mm with a hole in the 0.60–0.70mm range, roughly 15–16 beads to a strung inch. A size 10–12 needle with 0.10–0.18mm thread suits it. Antique holes are undocumented and vary lot to lot, and SVC sizes overlap more than modern ones do — test-thread a sample before anything count-critical.
Uncirculated old stock, never strung for trade. Small lot, finite old stock. Browse our full SVC whites and neutrals inventory to compare against your reference material.
Pickup available at 8535 Commerce Place Drive NE Ste A
Usually ready in 2-4 days
Antique Murano greasy white seed beads, 11/0, in a 10 gram tube. Semi-translucent glass — light diffuses inside the bead rather than stopping at the surface, so these read cooler and softer than an opaque white. Translucency varies bead to bead, and period specks in the perforations are normal for this stock.
11SV8012-3: Antique Venetian 11/0 Seed Bead Greasy White #3 - 10 Grams is backordered and will ship as soon as it is back in stock.
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Read this before you order if you are matching a white: these are not opaque. Greasy glass is semi-translucent, so light enters each bead and diffuses inside it rather than stopping at the surface. Against an opaque chalk white they look softer and slightly grey; in mass they read as a cool, milky, faintly blue-leaning white rather than a flat one. If your reference piece used an opaque white, this is the wrong material no matter how well the hue agrees.
What greasy means, and why it is match-critical. Greasy is a property of the glass formula itself, not a coating — which is why it cannot wear off, and why no modern bead reproduces it convincingly. The degree of translucency varies bead to bead: some read nearly opaque, others are clearly glassy, and both are authentically greasy. Set beside opaline, which carries a pearlescent sheen at the surface, greasy is the quieter of the two — the glow is internal, with no shell-like cast on top.
Lot character. Dark specks in the perforations are normal for this stock — kiln and annealing debris from period production rather than anything introduced since. Because the glass is semi-translucent they show more readily than they would in an opaque bead. For count-critical or uniform-face work, plan on a pre-sort.
Sizing and threading. SVC 11/0 runs 2.20–2.50mm with a hole in the 0.60–0.70mm range, roughly 15–16 beads to a strung inch. A size 10–12 needle with 0.10–0.18mm thread suits it. Antique holes are undocumented and vary lot to lot, and SVC sizes overlap more than modern ones do — test-thread a sample before anything count-critical.
Uncirculated old stock, never strung for trade. Small lot, finite old stock. Browse our full SVC whites and neutrals inventory to compare against your reference material.
