
thumb|upright=1|right|A selection of glass beads thumb|Merovingian bead thumb|Trade beads, 18th century thumb|Trade beads, 18th century
thumb|upright=1|right|A selection of glass beads thumb|Merovingian bead thumb|Trade beads, 18th century thumb|Trade beads, 18th century
A bead is a small, decorative object that is formed in a variety of shapes and sizes of a material such as stone, bone, shell, glass, plastic, wood, or pearl and with a small hole for threading or stringing. Beads range in size from under 1 mm to over 1 cm in diameter.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).