{"product_id":"10sv794-antique-venetian-10-0-seed-bead-color-lined-clear-violet-red-10-grams","title":"10SV794: Antique Venetian 10\/0 Seed Bead Color Lined Clear Violet Red - 10 Grams","description":"\u003ch3\u003eColor Lined Clear Violet Red — Antique SVC Venetian Seed Beads, 10\/0\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRead the care line before you order: the colour here is a lining inside the channel of clear glass, it is not fused into the glass, and bleach, solvents, soaking or ultrasonic cleaning will lift or fade it.\u003c\/strong\u003e That is not a defect of age, it is how colour-lined beads were made. Wipe clean only, keep finished work out of standing water, and a colour-lined piece will hold its saturation indefinitely. Wash it once the wrong way and you are left with clear beads.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat you actually see is a two-layer bead.\u003c\/strong\u003e The body is near-colourless glass, so it stays glassy and light-catching, and the violet-leaning red sits in the core where the lining runs. In mass that reads as a saturated raspberry running through a bright clear shell rather than as a solid block of colour — brighter and cooler than a transparent red of similar hue, and more luminous than any opaque could be. Worth knowing if your reference is a solid violet or a solid red; this sits between the two and behaves like neither.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLot character.\u003c\/strong\u003e Lining density varies across uncirculated stock of this age. Some beads carry a heavy, fully saturated channel; others run thinner and read paler, closer to a blush against the clear glass. Both are authentic to the lot, and the spread is part of what makes colour-lined beadwork look period rather than printed. For colour-critical work, pre-sort by saturation. Dark specks in the perforations are normal here as well — kiln and annealing debris from period production.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSizing and threading.\u003c\/strong\u003e SVC 10\/0 runs 2.40–2.70mm with holes in the 0.70–0.80mm range, roughly 13–15 beads to a strung inch, a size 10–12 needle and 0.10–0.18mm thread — KO, One-G or Nymo B\/D. Antique holes are undocumented and vary lot to lot, and adjacent SVC sizes overlap widely, so caliper the beads and test-thread a sample before count-critical work. Go gently with the needle: the lining sits in the channel and a forced pass can scrape it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eColour-lined clears are one of the hardest categories to substitute in restoration, because nothing modern reproduces that lit-from-within core over antique glass. We do not expect to source this colorway again. Browse our full SVC purples inventory to compare against your reference material.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUncirculated old stock, never strung for trade. Small lot, finite old stock.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PRAIRIE EDGE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54062749810883,"sku":"10SV794","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/7397\/5491\/files\/10SV794.jpg?v=1785990110","url":"https:\/\/www.shipwreckbeads.com\/products\/10sv794-antique-venetian-10-0-seed-bead-color-lined-clear-violet-red-10-grams","provider":"Shipwreck Beads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}