The craft or practice of creating designs or ornaments with beads; decorative work made from strung or sewn beads; a line of beads used as decoration.
From bead + -ing (gerund and present participle suffix). The term developed as bead decoration became a widespread craft practice.
Beading is one of humanity's oldest crafts—archaeological evidence shows that humans were threading beads 100,000 years ago, making it potentially older than language itself as a form of creative expression!
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