African Trade Beads, Tribal Beadwork, Antique Beads, Afghani Jewelry

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The Bead Chest

Serving our customers with rare and unique trade beads since 1986.

The Bead Chest is family owned and operated, and is in its twentieth year in business.

Many of our customers know of us under a different name. We have been doing trade shows across the nation for the past two decades and have served thousands of satisfied customers. We pride ourselves in providing authentic and quality African trade beads, textiles, baskets, Afghani jewelry and more.

We recently expanded our business and created this online storefront. In early 2005, we began listing our items on eBay, but soon found that due to the high popularity of these items, an online storefront would better suit the needs of our customers.