recycled glass bead garland

These beautiful sea glass beads are the quintessential coastal accessory. Pair with strands of another color and set on top of books, in a bowl or drape a single strand around the neck of a lamp for a subtle coastal touch.

Powder glass beads are made by crushing glass to a fine powder and heating it so that the particles fuse together. The glass is then poured into clay molds, with a cassava leaf stem used to make the hole. They are baked in an oven and the glass fuses and the cassava stem burns up. This technique has been used in Africa for centuries.

Made in Ghana, Africa by the Krobo People.