A beaded past
No longer a fringe hobby, beads, beading and beaded jewelry are hot trends showing up on the runways of London Paris and New York. Fashionistas around the globe are digging up granny’s old beads and re-stringing them into new Bohemian looks.
The re-birth of beads can be traced back to the sixties and the love generation-indeed their symbol and badge of honor was a strand of love beads. This reconnection with the so-called antiquated past was a breadth of fresh air to a world that wanted to see itself in bright plastics and rid itself of granny’s old beads once and for all.
Beads are too deeply ingrained into every world culture to be brushed aside so quickly. The real Johnny come lately was the plastic future world- look around is anyone wearing silver space suits. Humankind has deep connections with its own past, even in the depth of the digital universe we can still stay connected to that past. fads come and go, but certain things remain intrinsic.