Made in Fred the Shed.
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These beads are made with the technique that beadmakers in Ghana use. I have seen them called "sand cast" but sand has little to do with the process.
These beads are soft and satiny looking, sometimes taking on the texture of sugar candy or fruit.
The technique is what some might call primitive.
Really it's just an amazingly simple and effective low-tech way of making beads from crushed or powdered glass.
I like to use both recycled glass and commercially made glass for my beads. Recycling glass objects can be rewarding and surprising. But commercially made glass offers so many colors to play with.
And my beads are all about play.
The technique I use makes every bead different--in the way the glass combines, in the way the hole is shaped and in the overall shape of the bead. These beads are perfectly imperfect and individual (rather like we people, eh?).
So I call them modern primitives.
Please browse my gallery and my shop.
Thanks. And remember, it's ok to just bead yourself.
Here's Fred the Shed.
