Definición

• Beading Tool, Beading Roulette.  A jewelers tool, infrequently used in the medallic field, for applying a fine row of uniform beads on a medallic model. It contains a wheel with minute intaglio hemispheres, which when rolled across soft material, soft metal for jewelers – clay, plasteline or wax for sculptors – leaves a trail of perfectly formed beads. Also called milgrain tool. Such commercial beading tools come in a variety of uniform hemispheres in a dozen different sizes and also can be obtained to form a continuous rope or corded design. Early medallists, and some ingenious modern modelers, have crafted their own milgrain or beading tools. Use of a beading tool makes for a distinctive uniform design of the continuous border. The appeal of a newly carved wheel, however, is the appropriateness of the border element to the overall design of the work at hand and the crispness of the detail carved on the wheel.  A beading tool plate
  is used by diamond setters.

  excerpted with permission from

  An Encyclopedia of Coin and Medal Technology

  For Artists, Makers, Collectors and Curators

  COMPILED AND WRITTEN BY D. WAYNE JOHNSON

  Roger W. Burdette, Editor

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