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Aug. 22nd, 2019 02:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwyn... huh, I was going to post about looking for color matches for six-color pride flag stripes among the three millimeter crystal beads for sale at artbeads.com, because you can order them in very small amounts there, but I may be able to buy 3mm beads in groups of as few as 12 through Fire Mountain Gems. Which is not bad, and the prices aren't bad either.
I need to check something.
Rounds:
Red: Fire Mountain has 3mm rounds in Siam and Siam shimmer
Orange: ... hrm. Well, they call it tangerine shimmer. The diagram is shaped like a bicone but the description says it's a round and the photo's not too far off
Yellow: Crystal metallic sunshine, 12 to a pack; topaz, 24 to a pack, but about the same price as the crystal metallic sunshine ones
Green: Emerald and emerald shimmer, 12 to a pack
Blue: Aquamarine, light turquoise, light turquoise shimmer, and turquoise glacier blue- I'm not familiar with the glacier effect from Swarovski, so I don't know how that really differs from other variants. They also have majestic blue, which is basically royal blue, no shimmer options there. All these in 12-packs.
Purple: .... well, they got twelve-packs of Swarovski amethyst. It's kinda pale.
Bicones:
That's more like it. Purple is available in a darker shade of amethyst, but also in a deeper color named purple velvet. A 48-pack costs a buck forty more than a twelve-pack of amethyst rounds.
Blues: ahahaha there's like thirty-nine different Swarovski bicone blue options and at least fifteen more if Preciosa (made in the Czech Republic) is an acceptable brand.
Greens: Almost as many options as blues in 3mm bicones. Again, the 48-packs cost around $1.40 to $1.50 more than a twelve-pack of rounds.
Yellows: yep, nine different possible yellow options and secven of them look properly yellow rather than metallic or some weird topaz variant.
Oranges: tangerine, tangerine shimmer, hyacinth, hyacinth shimmer, you name it, they got orange options.
Reds: ... yeah, we're good here.
So I can probably secure bicones at reasonable prices for rainbow color ear climbers and still have plenty of beads left over for other things. Unless I really just want to try one or two beads of individual colors it doesn't make that much sense to buy a handful of beads at a time- the prices on individual beads turn out to be way higher than the price per bead of a 48-pack or 12-pack.
Hrm.
I need to check something.
Rounds:
Red: Fire Mountain has 3mm rounds in Siam and Siam shimmer
Orange: ... hrm. Well, they call it tangerine shimmer. The diagram is shaped like a bicone but the description says it's a round and the photo's not too far off
Yellow: Crystal metallic sunshine, 12 to a pack; topaz, 24 to a pack, but about the same price as the crystal metallic sunshine ones
Green: Emerald and emerald shimmer, 12 to a pack
Blue: Aquamarine, light turquoise, light turquoise shimmer, and turquoise glacier blue- I'm not familiar with the glacier effect from Swarovski, so I don't know how that really differs from other variants. They also have majestic blue, which is basically royal blue, no shimmer options there. All these in 12-packs.
Purple: .... well, they got twelve-packs of Swarovski amethyst. It's kinda pale.
Bicones:
That's more like it. Purple is available in a darker shade of amethyst, but also in a deeper color named purple velvet. A 48-pack costs a buck forty more than a twelve-pack of amethyst rounds.
Blues: ahahaha there's like thirty-nine different Swarovski bicone blue options and at least fifteen more if Preciosa (made in the Czech Republic) is an acceptable brand.
Greens: Almost as many options as blues in 3mm bicones. Again, the 48-packs cost around $1.40 to $1.50 more than a twelve-pack of rounds.
Yellows: yep, nine different possible yellow options and secven of them look properly yellow rather than metallic or some weird topaz variant.
Oranges: tangerine, tangerine shimmer, hyacinth, hyacinth shimmer, you name it, they got orange options.
Reds: ... yeah, we're good here.
So I can probably secure bicones at reasonable prices for rainbow color ear climbers and still have plenty of beads left over for other things. Unless I really just want to try one or two beads of individual colors it doesn't make that much sense to buy a handful of beads at a time- the prices on individual beads turn out to be way higher than the price per bead of a 48-pack or 12-pack.
Hrm.
