{"product_id":"11sv8012-6-antique-venetian-11-0-seed-bead-greasy-white-6-10-grams","title":"11SV8012-6: Antique Venetian 11\/0 Seed Bead Greasy White #6 - 10 Grams","description":"\u003ch3\u003eGreasy White #6 — Antique SVC Venetian Seed Beads, 11\/0\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIf you are matching a white, the cast will decide it before the finish does: this one leans warm.\u003c\/strong\u003e In mass it reads as a soft milky white with a faint cream turn, not a cool or blue-leaning one, and beside a bright optic white it will look slightly aged even when it is not. The second thing to know is that it is not opaque — greasy glass is semi-translucent, so light enters each bead and diffuses inside it instead of stopping at the surface, which softens the edges of a filled area and takes the hard line off every outline you work with it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGreasy is the glass itself.\u003c\/strong\u003e The semi-translucency comes from the formula rather than from any coating, so it cannot wear off, thin at abrasion points, or be reproduced convincingly in modern stock. It is also not opaline: opaline carries a pearly sheen up at the surface, while greasy keeps everything internal with no shell-like cast on top. Across a filled panel that difference is obvious, and swapping one for the other mid-project shows.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLot character.\u003c\/strong\u003e Translucency runs a genuine spread through this stock — some beads read nearly opaque, others are frankly glassy at the edges, and both extremes are authentically greasy rather than off-spec. That spread is part of why old greasy whites look alive in a large field. Dark specks in the perforations are normal here, being kiln and annealing debris from period production, and they read a little more openly through semi-translucent glass. Pre-sort for uniform-face or count-critical work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSizing and threading.\u003c\/strong\u003e 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, 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 — is the pairing. Antique holes are undocumented and vary lot to lot, and 11\/0 and 12\/0 share an overlapping size window in this stock, so caliper measurement beats the card notation and a test-thread settles the hole.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe warm cast is an asset in restoration work, where a modern cool white often reads as the one wrong element in an otherwise correct piece. 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":54062749155523,"sku":"11SV8012-6","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/7397\/5491\/files\/11SV8012-6.jpg?v=1785990110","url":"https:\/\/www.shipwreckbeads.com\/products\/11sv8012-6-antique-venetian-11-0-seed-bead-greasy-white-6-10-grams","provider":"Shipwreck Beads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}