Among many indigeous peoples, colourful beads where one of the most costly heirlooms in their possession. Our logo is derived from the design of such a bead found in Borneo.

Welcome to newbeads.com

Currently, this site is mostly empty, but I will quickly add more and more things. 1 January 06, 2026

You can expect the following:

Free electronic texts on discovery and exploration, ranging from the Jungles of Amazonia to those of Borneo, from the devastating heat of the deserts to the biting cold of the poles.

Free electronic texts on the world's indigeous peoples, ranging from the Igorot in the Philippines to the Trobriand Islanders in Melanesia.

Free software to help in the production of electronic texts.

You can already download the following:

Oriya-TeX (238 kB), a package to typeset the Oriya Language with TeX.

Malayalam-TeX (450 kB), a package to typeset the Malayalam Language with TeX.

SGML-TeX (11 kB), an experimental package to typeset the SGML documents directly in TeX (without the use of any other software).

Your webmaster Jeroen Hellingman.