Adjustable self-stopping strung beads and method of making same

A jewelry article comprising

• an elongated slender support;
• a plurality of ornaments slidably positioned along the support, and
• at least one self-stopping bead adjustably positioned along the support adjacent to a selected one of the plurality of slidable ornaments, each self-stopping bead including
• a substantially closed rigid shell having a pair of spaced-apart holes sized to slidably receive the support, and
• a resilient tube resiliently fixed entirely inside the shell in alignment with the holes, said tube having an outside diameter that is larger than the diameter of said holes and an inside diameter which is slightly smaller than the maximum cross-section of the support, said support being threaded through the tube so that the tube resiliently engages a segment of the support extending within the tube whereby each self-stopping bead can be adjustably fixed at selected positions along the support to arrange the plurality of ornaments in various different groupings at selected locations along the support.