Japanese seed beads are favored for their high quality, precision crafting, and uniformity in size. Each bead is uniformly made and measure 1.7 mm with a .8 mm inner hole diameter. Matsuno seed beads are great for bead looming, bead weaving, woven jewelry making and other jewelry making projects! This value pack of delica glass beads comes with storage box, 8.3g of each color.With 10 beautiful colors: Luminous Inside Color Salmon, Purple Silverline, Inside Color Clear/Light Purple, Inside Color Blue/Fuchsia,Medium Blue Silverline, Transparent Pale Opal, Iris Matte Gun Metal, Iris Bronze, Transaprent Turquoise Blue, Metalic Lt Gold.
D**7
great quality at a great price: go for it!
Great! Colors are wonderful! I am a bit sad I won t be able to buy them individually. None was broken. The storage box is super convenient. Honestly it is a great deal for the price!
T**G
item good but came all mixed up
Beads are pretty and evenly shaped but they came all mixed up if i pay higher prices I want my beads separate I did not want to have to seperate them it was because the box was open a little the beads mixed together other than that they are good.
P**2
Two Stars
Love them
T**I
One Star
return
M**B
Not quite as pictured, but still gorgeous
After reading the poor reviews based on the beads arriving mixed up, I was hesitant to order. The MATSUNO 11/0 seed beads just arrived in the mail. Perhaps the company has changed their packaging, but these beads arrived beautifully separated. The only errant beads were due to static electricity that caused some beads to stick to the plastic insert meant to keep the beads in place. I didn't realize it until some of the beads jumped off into a different compartment. Replacing the plastic insert and repeatedly tapping on it until all beads fell into their proper compartment took care of that problem. So I'm very happy to report that other than those few errant beads, the colors remained mercifully separate. Between the plastic insert, the taped lid, and the careful packaging, everything remained intact. So 5 stars for packaging, considering the beads are in a compartment box!!These are cylinder beads. Since Delica is a registerd name to Miyuki, the additional information about these beads should have said cylinder instead of Delica. There is a very slight size difference between these Matsuno cylinder 11/0 and Miyuki 11/0 beads, so I don't know how well they would work together in a loom project. Something to keep in mind.I don't know the cull rate with these beads versus Miyuki, but I did notice some slight size differences, particularly in the Matt Gun Metal. I won't know how much of a problem this is until I start to work with them.Here's where the 4 stars comes in. I have a fairly accurate color monitor, so I was a little surprised to see that some of the colors were different from what I expected. Actually, some of the beads were different from what was listed.Left to right, top to bottom, here's what I received:Salmon - a little lighter than pictured, but very prettyPurple Silverline - lighter than pictured, reflects light beautifullyLight Purple - pretty much as picturedBlue Fuschia - these were not included; a slightly darker purple lined crystal (as compared to the Light Purple) was included instead; very prettyMedium Blue Silverline - these were not included; a gorgeous silver lined peacock blue was included insteadTransparent Pale Opal - these were not included; a white lined crystal was included insteadIris Matt Gun Metal - I don't know if these are Iris Matt or regular matt, but they are a dark gray mattIris Bronze - I don't know if this is what was included or not; the beads included are a very shiny dark bronze, very niceTurquoise Blue - The beads included are lighter than they appear on my stand alone, more color accurate, monitor, but surprisingly they are a match on my cooler color Dell laptop screen; these are quite lovelyMetallic Light Gold - what was included is a very bright gold; very niceMost of us know that different computer monitors show colors differently. My standalone monitor shows colors warmer compared to my laptop screen which shows colors cooler. (FYI - the Miyuki Delica beads I ordered also arrived today, and their actual color is very close, if not exact, as seen on my standalone monitor.) If your heart is set on the beads as described, you may be somewhat disappointed with what you receive. For the most part, I'm more than happy with the color substitutions.The last point that I haven't verified ... is there really 8.3 grams of each color??? Just eyeballing the beads in one compartment against a 5 gram bottle of Miyuki Delica beads, it looks somewhat comparable. I won't know until I try putting these beads into a Miyuki Delica 5 gram bottle for comparison.With all of that said, especially in light of the poor reviews, I'm happy with this purchase. The real proof will be in the beading.08/28/2018 Update - I just got 7.2 gm of 11/0 Delica beads. I transferred those beads to a different container, and put in one of the colors of these MATSUNO 11/0 seed beads. Good news ... The MATUSNO beads took up a little more space in the tube than the Delicas. My test color may not have been exactly 8.3 grams, then they are darn close. Or perhaps the slight size difference between the MATSUNO beads and Delicas accounts for the slight difference in volume. Either way, I've very happy with the quantity :-)
E**R
Beads are completely intermixed.
This what you get. How on earth is someone to separate 1000 beads?
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