Beading is a very old art. Father Dominic was more or less responsible for beading, because in the
alms houses he brought beads to the people in the alms houses to make rosaries. And then what
they used to do they used to use the old beads and make flowers. And the bead flowers were used
to decorate the altars.
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Now, in the [LSU] Rural Life Museum in Baton Rouge, where they have the religious articles, there is a
wall plaque with beads on them. The French people really were the ones who were vitally
interested in beads and you had bead flowers in quite a few of the French magazines. And then,
beading, like everything else, just had a slump, so to speak.
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