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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 951856, member: 5833&quot;]I&#039;m not so sure they always are done by machine.&nbsp; When you buy a strand of semiprecious stone beads, you may find that some beads have holes too small for the cord that works for most of the others.&nbsp; For bead shapes like briolette where the hole is drilled through a point, it seems there are always a few with the hole too close to the tip that snap when you&#039;re stringing them.&nbsp; Because the diameter of the hole may not be the same all the way through, I learned that sometimes I could string a bead from one side when it was too small to get the needle started in from the other.&nbsp; India does a lot of lapidary work of this sort &amp; seems still to be largely hand labor.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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