Pricing is determined by diameter size of bead, as measured from hole to hole in millimeters. Since most of my beads are slightly donut shaped, the numbers usually come out smaller measuring this way. Every once in a while I make a bead that has its long axis along the hole, in which case, you're screwed. Sorry. But I feel it's critically important to be consistant.

Designer/production beads come in basically two price categories, plus the inevitable exception:

• a) 1st quality pixies/dotties
• b) 1st quality everything else
• c) dichros of various types

Dottie/Pixie/Bubble prices:

Description: Dotties are transparent hollow beads with 3 rows of five dots, or bumps, each. Pixies are transparent hollow beads with a coating of ``pixie dust''. Yes, that really is the industry term. Bubbles are just plain, hollow beads, usually transparent. Because there is no decoration to conceal flaws, there is a bigger reject pile, which is why they cost the same.

• less than 10mm: $11
• 10--13mm: $9
• 14--17mm: $11
• 18--23mm: $17
• more than 23mm: see note

Abstract/CurliQ/Stripey/Gold leaf/FloralonPixie/etc

Description: Abstracts are hollow (sometimes chiming) beads coated with thompson enamels (powder), frits, and metallic leaf; CurliQs may be opaque or transparent with spiral trailing; Stripeys are typically opaque beads that made with stripes, twisted stripes, gravity swirled stripes, even layered opaque dots; Gold leaf is a plain base bead, opaque or transparent, with gold leaf applied to it; Floral on Pixie is a pixie with additional floral trailing. Extravagant Abstracts and Antique Curliques are variations on the above; add $1 to the price for these.

• less than 10mm: $15
• 10--13mm: $13
• 14--17mm: $15
• 18--23mm: $25
• more than 23mm: see note

Dichro Solids:

• 10mm and under: $13
• 11--13mm: $15
• 14--17mm: $18
• more than 17mm: see note

Hole sizes: Everything but the solids are typically built on 1/16'' mandrels thinly coated with release. Very small beads (6--8mm) may be built on smaller mandrels (.035 or .045) and it's definitely easier to make the 18+ on larger mandrels, if I'm going to be making a lot of them. The dichro solids are also built on 1/16 mandrels, but much more thickly coated ones. This because solid beads grip the mandrel more tightly, and are likely to be plant decorators if made on the thin coatings typical for hollows.

Note: If you just want one or two of the biggies, I'll quote something off-the-cuff depending on the particular type of you want. (And hope I don't lose money on the deal.) Wholesale quanties will require a test batch before the price can be firmed. ---Welcome to a dirty little secret most artisans won't tell you: you're not paying for glass, or gas or other overhead, expensive as that is. The biggest component of my prices (and those of every other artist out there) is my time---time to make the piece multiplied by the time it's taken me to acquire---and maintain!---the skill to make that piece. The latter is measured in years, which is why even simple beads may seem kinda pricey.

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Focal Beads.

Focals are typically individually priced, but the info below will give you a sense of the range.

Dichro Cores

Description: This is custom ordered bead, and price varies. It is a cylindrical dichroic bead with a jacketed hollow bead built on the core. The simplest design is a plain jacket, or one with a row of 5 dots; sometimes I make them with 3 rows of 5 dots, like the dotties. The other design I used to do on a fairly regular basis was floral decorations on the jacket. They start at about $20 and go up from there, and are priced on time. These are typically built on 1/16 mandrels; the larger size exacerbates cracking between the jacket and the core bead, which for technical reasons I won't bore you with is already more of an issue with this style of bead.

Floral Vases, frit/powder or pixie base:

Description: a vessel shaped hollow bead (at least somewhat hollow, anyway:) decorated with a base of either thompson enamels and frits, many artist-made or pixie dust, trailed with floral canes. These tend to be built on 3/32'' mandrels.

start $38, and go up to about $50. Most around $40--45.

Dichro Focals

A hollow bead with multiple layers of dichro. These tend to be fairly large beads, usually 25--50 mm (or more) long, and may additionally have metallic leaf, pixie, trailing, and shards, as well as fancy patterned dichro. They are fancy, eye-catching beads, time-consuming to make, and the price reflects this---typically starting at $50 or so and goin up from there. These are usually built on 3/32'' mandrels.

How to Order:

Email me with a list and a phone number with a good time to call. I'll contact you with delivery info, get your credit card info, etc. If you don't want to do the phone thing, I can email you an invoice, you can send me a check (made out to Rejiquar Works, please) and I'll ship your beads when it clears. Yeah, I know, really crude. Really, that shopping cart is coming any day now...

Discounts, extra fees, etc.

Quite often I pay for the shipping, but if you don't like something, you have to pay to insure it and send it back. I'm one person, and not set up to accept return shipping costs. If you're really nervous, I can take a pic of your beads and post it privately, if you want a better sense of what you're getting. Abuse this privilege and it will go away.

I offer what I believe are fairly standard wholesale discount schedules: 25% off retail for orders of $250 or more, and keystone for orders at $500 (e.g. for shops/beadstores). Wholesale customers are responsible for shipping/handling.

Returns. You're welcome to return anything, for any reason for a complete refund of your invoice: I understand wholeheartedly that it takes a leap of faith to buy something sight unseen, however good the representations may be.

Special Orders: So you want to order something I don't normally do, and what happens if you don't like it? Good question, and one for which I currently don't have an answer. So far, it's never been a problem, cuz all of my custom-order customers have loved their product. I would suggest, if the order is going to be a large one, that you purchase samples before either of us invests too much time and trouble. Certainly I'd much rather refund your money for one or two beads than 300.

I'll try to add pix, links etc., soon. And yeah, the tone of this page is unneccessarily snarky. Apologies, I'm not really trying to scare you off. I'll try and fix that soon, too. Meh.

file created 14jun06; updated 21jan07