Recycled Glass Bead Earrings

Description

Add a touch of whimsy to your wardrobe with these light blue recycled glass bead dangle earrings. Painted with white stripes and black polka dots.

These recycled glass bead earrings support a small business in a Ghanian village as well as linguistic work done around the world by SIL.

Traditional glass beads of Ghana are often referred to as Krobo beads, the Krobo mountains being the main area of production. These beads are made from recycled glass. Bottles and other glass items are first washed and sorted by colours. They are then broken into small fragments for making translucent beads, or pounded with a metal mortar and pestle, and sieved to get a very fine powder for making powder glass beads. Glass powder of different colours is obtained using ceramic dyes.