Bright, beautifully colored glass trade beads with an occasional plastic spacer bead. Originally made in southern Spain and Venice especially for the African trade. Tribes would keep these beads as heirlooms for generations. They are now being accumulated in Nigeria and Ghana by the bead, and restrung for your beading projects. Strand lengths will vary randomly from 33 inches to 36 inches. You are purchasing twelve strands of beads.