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Like a lot of things in Ghana, colors come weighted with symbolism. With this multicolored strand, you’re covering all your bases; you’ve got your blue for truth, your green for fertility, and your white for purity. As for the baubles themselves, they were made with an age-old technique mastered by the Krobo people of southeastern Ghana, the country’s uncontested recycling champs.
Not only do the Krobo recycle their old glass bottles, they’ve turned the process into an art form. Crushing broken bottles and other vitreous fragments to a fine powder, the colorful talc is then poured into clay m... Read More
Not only do the Krobo recycle their old glass bottles, they’ve turned the process into an art form. Crushing broken bottles and other vitreous fragments to a fine powder, the colorful talc is then poured into clay molds, where little stick of cassava stem are inserted to create what will be the finished bead’s hole. Then it’s into the oven, where the powdered glass heats up and fuses together, all of which takes about 30-45 minutes. When the beads are removed from the oven they’re cooled, decorated, and strung. Read Less
27"l, 0.8" d beads
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