beadworking

English

Etymology

From beadwork +‎ -ing.

Noun

beadworking (uncountable)

1. The activity of making beadwork.
   • 1979, David Goodman Mandelbaum, The Plains Cree: An Ethnographic, Historical, and Comparative Study, volume 9, University of Regina Press, page 101:

     In the most common beadworking technique, the beads were strung on a thread and laid along the surface to which they were attached.

   • 2017 September 7, Paul Bahn, Archaeology: The Essential Guide to Our Human Past, Smithsonian Institution, page 37:

     Beadworking may well be one of modern humans’ earliest surviving crafts.

   • 2024 October 12, Wikipedia contributors, “Cameroon”, in English Wikipedia‎^[1], Wikimedia Foundation:

     Other crafts include basket weaving, beadworking, brass and bronze working, calabash carving and painting, embroidery, and leather working.