Unisex African Bead Bracelets paired with Lava or Wood Beads
Unisex African Bead Bracelets paired with Lava or Wood Beads
Unisex African Bead Bracelets paired with Lava or Wood Beads
Unisex African Bead Bracelets paired with Lava or Wood Beads
Unisex African Bead Bracelets paired with Lava or Wood Beads
Unisex African Bead Bracelets paired with Lava or Wood Beads
Unisex African Bead Bracelets paired with Lava or Wood Beads
  • Load image into Gallery viewer, Unisex African Bead Bracelets paired with Lava or Wood Beads
  • Load image into Gallery viewer, Unisex African Bead Bracelets paired with Lava or Wood Beads
  • Load image into Gallery viewer, Unisex African Bead Bracelets paired with Lava or Wood Beads
  • Load image into Gallery viewer, Unisex African Bead Bracelets paired with Lava or Wood Beads
  • Load image into Gallery viewer, Unisex African Bead Bracelets paired with Lava or Wood Beads
  • Load image into Gallery viewer, Unisex African Bead Bracelets paired with Lava or Wood Beads
  • Load image into Gallery viewer, Unisex African Bead Bracelets paired with Lava or Wood Beads

Unisex African Bead Bracelets paired with Lava or Wood Beads

Regular price
$25.00
Sale price
$25.00
Regular price
$45.00
Sold out
Unit price
per 

African Bead Bracelets paired with Lava or Wood Beads.  
Sultry and handsome, these bracelets are all hand made with stretch cord.
Choose Diffuser Lava or Wood beads to finish your look. 
Get one or stack multiple!
Bohemian with an AFRO-tude!
***some history on the beads below***
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Krobo Powder glass beads are a type of necklace ornamentation. The earliest such beads were discovered during archaeological excavations at Mapungubwe in South Africa, and dated to between 970-1000 CE. Manufacturing of the powder glass beads is now concentrated in West Africa, particularly in the Ghana area. The origins of beadmaking in Ghana are unknown, but the great majority of powder glass beads produced today is made by Ashanti and Krobo craftsmen and women. Krobo bead making has been documented to date from as early as the 1920s but despite limited archaeological evidence, it is believed that Ghanaian powder glass bead making dates further back. Bead making in Ghana was first documented by John Barbot in 1746.[1] Beads still play important roles in Krobo society, be it in rituals of birth, coming of age, marriage, or death.

Polishing of Ghanaian glass beads. Cedi bead factory, Odumase Krobo, Ghana

Powder glass beads are made from finely ground glass, the main source being broken and unusable bottles and a great variety of other scrap glasses. Special glasses such as old cobalt medicine bottles, cold cream jars, and many other types of glasses from plates, ashtrays, window panes - to name only a few - are occasionally bought new, just for the purpose. Pulverized or merely fragmented, and made into beads, these glasses yield particularly bright colours and shiny surfaces. Modern ceramic colourants, finely ground broken beads, or shards of different coloured glasses from various sources can be added to create a great variety of styles, designs and decorative patterns in many different colours. In addition, glass bead fragments of varying sizes, which have traditionally been used for the manufacture as well as for the decoration of specific types of beads, can now be found in interesting new combinations, and during the past few years in particular, bead makers have taken this tradition yet another step forward by using entire, i.e. whole small beads for making their colourful bead creations.