{"product_id":"10sv8212-1-antique-venetian-10-0-seed-bead-opaline-white-1-10-grams","title":"10SV8212-1: Antique Venetian 10\/0 Seed Bead Opaline White #1 - 10 Grams","description":"\u003ch3\u003eOpaline White #1 — Antique SVC Venetian Seed Beads, 10\/0\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo things get returned as the wrong white, so both go first. \u003cstrong\u003eThese are not opaque, and opaline is not the same finish as greasy.\u003c\/strong\u003e Opaline glass is recorded as translucent: it passes light without letting you see through it, and it carries a pearlescent, nacre-like sheen at the surface. The overall read is a clean bright white with a faint shell-like warmth riding on top rather than a chalk-flat white.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOpaline against greasy, since the two get shelved together.\u003c\/strong\u003e Greasy glass diffuses light inside the bead — the glow is internal and quiet, with nothing sitting on the surface. Opaline puts the event at the surface instead: warmer, more visibly pearly, and directional as the light moves across a filled area. In a restoration context they are not interchangeable, and a panel worked half in one and half in the other will show the seam. Both also differ from a true opaque white, which stops light dead and reads noticeably heavier.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLot character.\u003c\/strong\u003e Dark specks in the perforations are normal for this stock — kiln and annealing debris from period production rather than anything introduced since — and because the glass passes light they show more readily than they would in an opaque bead. The strength of the sheen varies across the stock, from clearly pearly to a soft glow. Uncirculated warehouse stock of this age carries the occasional off-colour bead, so order enough to sort from if you need a clean single-colour field.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSizing and threading.\u003c\/strong\u003e SVC 10\/0 runs 2.40–2.70mm with a hole in the 0.70–0.80mm range, roughly 13–15 beads to a strung inch, and strung counts for antique lots are estimates. A size 10–12 needle with 0.10–0.18mm thread — KO, One-G, Nymo B or D — suits it. Antique holes are undocumented and vary lot to lot, and adjacent SVC sizes overlap widely, so caliper the beads rather than trusting the card notation, and test-thread a sample first.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhites carry the structure in period beadwork — grounds, outlines, the field that everything else is read against — and an opaline white keeps that field from going flat under artificial light in a way an opaque white cannot. We do not expect to source this colorway again. Browse our full SVC whites and neutrals 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":54062749483203,"sku":"10SV8212-1","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/7397\/5491\/files\/10SV8212-1.jpg?v=1785990110","url":"https:\/\/www.shipwreckbeads.com\/products\/10sv8212-1-antique-venetian-10-0-seed-bead-opaline-white-1-10-grams","provider":"Shipwreck Beads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}