Lac

E79 Black Lac
20mm Black lac bead, daisy spacers, metal beads on kidney ear wire.
Length: approximately 5.5cm
RM20

According to Bead 'n Shop, lac is the hardened resin, secreted by the tiny lac insect belonging to a bug family. The widely known Indian lac insect is Kerria lacca. Lac insects, which can only be seen clearly with a magnifying glass, settle closely on the twigs of certain host trees, suck the plant sap and grow, all the while secreting lac resin from their bodies, in India and the Far East. Lac is safe natural product which is non toxic, hard, tough and brittle but softens with slow heating.

You can read the procedure for making lac beads here. These beads are hand-shaped, that's why they are not perfectly spherical. The accessories (flowers, small beads) are manually pressed into the lac bead during one of the heating process. So cool, right? :D

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