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A beautiful strand of powder glass African beads, made by the people of Krobo Mountain (Ghana, West Africa ), resembling old Venetian FANCY trade b...
View full detailsA beautiful strand of powder glass African beads, made by the people of Krobo Mountain in Ghana, West Africa. Many designs of Krobo beads are patte...
View full detailsA beautiful strand of powder glass African beads, made by the people of Krobo Mountain in Ghana, West Africa. Many designs of Krobo beads are patte...
View full detailsBeautiful strand of glass beads in a nice multicolor color. The strand has approximately 55 beads and measures 29" in length. Each bead measures 11...
View full detailsA beautiful strand of powder glass African beads, made by the people of Krobo Mountain in Ghana, West Africa. Many designs of Krobo beads are patte...
View full detailsA beautiful strand of powder glass African beads, made by the people of Krobo Mountain in Ghana, West Africa. Many designs of Krobo beads are patte...
View full detailsAdmire these unique and unusually large painted glass beads made by artisans from the Krobo tribe in Ghana. These beads resemble old fancy trade be...
View full detailsCheckout this beautiful strand of glass beads fashioned after traditional Flower trade beads. The strand has approximately 160 beads and measures 2...
View full detailsA beautiful strand of powder glass African beads, made by the people of Krobo Mountain in Ghana, West Africa. Many designs of Krobo beads are patte...
View full detailsGhana is known for its history of traditional bead-making. These beautiful powder glass beads are made by Krobo tribe people using centuries-old te...
View full detailsFun and colorful, these Krobo Glass Beads come from Ghana in West Africa. In this traditional art form, glass is crushed into a fine powder and the...
View full detailsA beautiful strand of powder glass African beads, made by the people of Krobo Mountain (Ghana, West Africa), reproducing old Venetian FANCY trade b...
View full detailsThis beautiful strand of African powder glass beads was made by the people of Krobo Mountain in Ghana, West Africa. Many designs of Krobo beads are...
View full detailsBeautiful strand of glass beads in a nice multicolor color. The strand has approximately 40-45 beads and measures 29" in length. Each bead measures...
View full detailsThis beautiful strand of African powder glass beads was made by the people of Krobo Mountain in Ghana, West Africa. Many designs of Krobo beads are...
View full detailsThis colorful mix of Krobo beads is a traditional craft of Ghana in West Africa. The beads are formed using pulverized glass that is heated and a c...
View full detailsA beautiful strand of Christmas Krobo powder glass African beads, made by the people of Krobo Mountain (Ghana, West Africa), reproducing old Veneti...
View full detailsA beautiful strand of powder glass African beads, made by the people of Krobo Mountain in Ghana, West Africa. Made from bottles and other glass ite...
View full detailsA beautiful strand of powder glass African beads, made by the people of Krobo Mountain (Ghana, West Africa), reproducing old Venetian FANCY trade b...
View full detailsThese multicolor powder glass beads are inspired by traditional Aja trade beads. Shaped as thin, sliced disks, these great beads open up a plethora...
View full detailsA beautiful strand of powder glass African beads, made by the people of Krobo Mountain in Ghana, West Africa. Many designs of Krobo beads are patte...
View full detailsA beautiful strand of powder glass African beads, made by the people of Krobo Mountain in Ghana, West Africa. Made from bottles and other glass ite...
View full detailsThese Blue & Brown Chevron Style Beads are inspired by the design of Venetian Aja Trade Beads. Handmade from recycled glass, these beads featur...
View full detailsA beautiful strand of powder glass African beads, made by the people of Krobo Mountain in Ghana, West Africa. Many designs of Krobo beads are patte...
View full detailsKrobo powder glass beads are generally made in West Africa, specifically Ghana. These African beads are made by the Ashanti and Krobo tribes, and were made in the 1900's. Krobo beads are made from powder glass, which comes from finely ground glass most commonly made out of recycled broken bottles and other scrap glasses.
These beautiful glass beads are made in vertical molds. Each mold is filled with finely ground glass which is layered to create different colorful designs. The beads are fired in clay kilns until the reycled glass fuses.
Krobo beads are usually made in West Africa, especially in Ghana. The Ashanti and the Krobo tribes use to make these beads in the nineteen century. Krobo beads are created from powder glass that comes from ground glass. These are basically made from recycled and reused scrap glasses or broken glass bottles. In vertical molds these beads are made. First, mold is filled with ground glass particles and then layered with various colorful designs. These beads are then melted until it gets locked with the recycled glass. One of the most important things that are being used to in the furnace is cassava leaf stems. Krobo beads come in 3 different styles and they are fused glass fragment beads, two halve beads and the writing beads. In fused glass beads large glass bottles or glass fragments are fused to each other and given final shape after treatment in furnace. After this procedure they are shaped in different styles and shapes.
Two halve beads can be bicones or in spherical shapes and are made from pulverized glass materials. After a treatment in fire the two halves are joined to each other and then given shape. Writing beads are also known as Mue ne Angma and are created from pure ground glass and then they are fused. All these three different styles of Krobo beads are made very carefully, as over heating may destroy the glass and only carbon residue will be left. These beads are really famous and you can easily get them in the market. These African beads are really unique and most of the tribal people in this part of the world love to wear it. Krobo beads from Africa are being exported to different parts of world. Some of the most common places are Venice, Turkey, USA, India and other countries. Nowadays, people use these beads as ornaments and other types of accessories.