Hebron Beads

Hebron beads were made with salts from the Dead Sea and date to the mid 1800's and earlier. The most common color of Hebron beads is a dull yellow. These African beads also come in different shades of blue and green, but these colors are much more difficult to find. Hebron beads are very often referred to as "Kano beads". These Hebron beads are cherished by antique bead collectors. Get your Hebron Kano beads from The Bead Chest today!

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Hebron is said to be the oldest cities in world. It is located in the West Bank. Hebron is the burial place of Jewish, Muslim & Christian faiths. As an very important place of pilgrimage, there are records of the Europeans who have visited this city exist till today, however glassmaking was not recorded after the fall of glass bead making ancient city of Lebanon- Tyre to Crusaders.

It then became remaining successors of Middle Eastern bead industry also for many centuries it has furnished the world of Muslim with small glass objects including, "Coarse glass beads that was named as Hersh and Munjir".

Beads were then made of the opaque glass (I think at that they used salt from Dead See for alkali) in green and yellow and blue, black or white very often.

Earlier the Hebron beads were made from Dead Sea salts and common color of these Hebron beads were dull yellow. These African Hebron beads generally come in a variety of different colors of green, yellow, and blue, but all these colors are very difficult to find at the site. Hebron beads are referred often as the "Kano beads". Antique bead collectors cherish Hebron beads and they are taking good care of these beads. The oldest way to make the Hebron glass bead is they are wound straight in furnace to make a shinning glass bead.

Mongur are considered the larger ones, while Harish are the smaller beads. They were well known and went to Egypt, Nile and in Sudan and little more further. Harish beads were found in Ghana

Earlier by 1930s, these beads were not of any value and A.J. Arkell recorded them and sold for a song by Sudanese women by the Hausa traders.

Then Hausa traders took these beads home and ground its rounded ends so that beads fit together on a strand in a better way. They later called them, Kano, after chief of city, giving birth to a myth that glass beads are prepared in Kano.

In early 1885 various glasses were, and not made locally, but it was melted from bottles and other scrap glass to make beads of different shapes. More lively and clear glass beads were shaped in eye hands, melons, beads, and few other different types of shape.

Not very much like earlier stratified eye beads, the sequence of these colors was smaller beads that were put on a base. "Pupil" of the eye is flattened hole of last bead in the sequence. Perhaps after World War II the beads of fancy types and holes were abandoned so, by 1960s they were plain monochromes. Large holes of these beads made them popular for macramé workers. At 1880, some workers from Hebron then moved to eastern Turkey, where the beads like these are still produced today.

No need to go to Hebron when you can buy your very own African Hebron beads today from The Bead Chest!