African Beads

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Handmade African beads provide vibrant hues, playful textures, and dramatic contrasts - perfect ingredients for making unique handmade jewelry! Find an impressive selection that encompasses both newly made African beads (like our Powder Glass beads, and many of our metal beads and pendants) and antique trade beads (including collector Italian glass beads).

African beads jewelry’s are known for their quality and beauty all over the world. There are many types of African beads jewelry’s such as pendants, bracelets, earrings, necklaces, and other types of tribal African jewelry. Jewelry made from Africana and Africa can be great gifts for men, for women even for children.

Materials Used in African beads Jewelry
Africans have tended to develop their work and they have started to use different organic materials and other materials that were readily available and suitable in their region to create their jewelry. Africans has used a different materials to make their products. First they started with those materials that they used to find in nature and then as the time moved they started to make different combinations and today they use almost every material for their jewelers.

Here are some materials to make handmade African beads jewelry: amber, carved stone, glass, wood, paper, wood,ivory, animal hair, egg shells, bone, sea shells and a lot of other things.A long time ago African peoples have cherished different beads and appreciated a lot their beauty. They have always made beautiful jewelry of various materials, perforated, beads are small and often rounded small objects found around the world. African beads in particular has become element of African adornment and are widely used in African regalia and clothing.

Beads and handmade jewelry have played an important role in Africans life and in the court life of African kingdoms, being valued sometimes as currency and sometimes as an artistic creation. The materials used to make those African products have varied over time, and include stone, clay, paper, metal, wood, shells and glass.

Handmade African Beads has often been complemented and enhanced with other beads like, brilliantly white cowrie. Those beats have also served as source of embellishment and currency and have been widely traded around Africa.White stone beads have been found near Nigeria- Nok.

Glass originally in the sort of imported beads or bottles, is another important uncooked material in African bead creating. The bead makers either terrain up or broke the glass and then they melted it, along with produced new products of beads.

Chevron beads, produced mainly in Venice along with shipped to Africa since the sixteenth century, have been especially popular in Western side Africa. Today, these samples and cards allow researchers to spot and date specific sorts of beads. In many areas, men wear them during necklace ensembles to show their status and prosperity.

Interesting Fact about African beads Jewelry
Archeologists have found beaded necklaces and beads buried with chiefs and kings in ancient African graves. Wearing and most important owning and old African beads jewelry or bead is believed to provide wisdom, hope, luck and well-being to its owner.

Economical and traditional African beads Jewelry
You can see a huge selection of African necklaces, African earrings and African bracelets, for you to own and wear. You will be able to wear together an African jewelry set for every day style! Almost all of African products are handmade, so you’re sure to get something special and unique. Today is so easy to find African products because almost every online shop has something from famous African culture.