BSGW Monthly Meetings are held on the 2nd Thursday of each month at the Chevy Chase Community Center 5601 Connecticut Ave. Washington DC 20015 (see map). Meeting and lecture begins at 7:30. Come at 7:00 to have a snack and chat with friends.
FEBRUARY 14: SHOW & TELL Treasures from Tucson Bead shows and other travel venues
Monthly Meeting
Chevy Chase Community Center 7:30 pm
Show and Tell - Tucson and other recent shows.
Lending Library reorganization. Our Lending Library
has been moved upstairs at CCCC. Please come and help us
reorganize and reshelve the books.
MARCH 13: PERUVIAN BLUE OPAL
Monthly Meeting
Chevy Chase Community Center 7:30 pm
Dealer/collector Lee Horowitz has mined and sold Peruvian blue opal in all its forms -- rough for cutting, finished strands of beads, as well as freeform and calibrated gem quality stones for setting. He will enlighten us on current treatments of the stone, particularly finished product coming from India and China. Learn to distinguish the 'real deal' from the various colour-treated stones. A wonderful assortment of Lee's beautiful blue opals -- rough, beads, cut and polished stones, is currently featured in the Museum's "Treasures of the Earth" exhibit.
APRIL 10: ROUGH TO READY—TRICKY AND TRUE
Monthly Meeting
Chevy Chase Community Center 7:30 pm
Many of you will recognize BSGW members 'Murph' Moorefield and Barbara Warnock of Caldron Crafts, in Baltimore, as long-time vendors in our Bead Bazaar, or perhaps from the classes they teach BeadFest. Using examples from their collection, they will demonstrate ways of detecting imitations of stone beads. This hands-on presentation will include samples of the rough material from which many of our favorite stone beads are made.
