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  • Black Diamond Cut Natural Wood Beads (17mm) - The Bead Chest
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    Black Diamond Cut Natural Wood Beads (17mm)

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    These diamond-shaped wooden beads are made of top quality natural wood and are perfect for your jewelry and craft projects. Available in a variety ...

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  • Black Diamond Cut Natural Wood Beads (15mm) - The Bead Chest
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    Black Diamond Cut Natural Wood Beads (15mm)

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    These diamond-shaped wooden beads are made of top quality natural wood and are perfect for your jewelry and craft projects. Available in a variety ...

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  • Black Round Wooden Arabian Prayer Beads (4mm) - The Bead Chest
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    Black Round Wooden Arabian Prayer Beads (4mm)

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    Evocative of a lost world, these beautiful Arabian prayer beads have been handcrafted by a master artisan. Their smooth quality has a refined and t...

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  • Black Round Natural Wood Beads (18mm) - The Bead Chest
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    Black Round Natural Wood Beads (18mm)

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    These round wooden beads are made of top quality natural wood and are perfect for your jewelry and craft projects. Available in a variety of natur...

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  • Dot Silver-Inlaid Arabian Prayer Beads (8mm) - The Bead Chest
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    Dot Silver-Inlaid Arabian Prayer Beads (8mm)

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    Evocative of a lost world, these beautiful Arabian prayer beads have been handcrafted by a master artisan. Look carefully and you will see that eac...

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  • Smooth Black Rudraksha Mala Prayer Beads (10mm) - The Bead Chest
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    Smooth Black Rudraksha Mala Prayer Beads (10mm)

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    We are captivated by these smooth Black Rudraksha Mala Prayer Beads. These Natural Seed Rudraksha Mala Beads come all the way from Nepal! Mala Bead...

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  • Charcoal Natural Wood Beads (8mm) - The Bead Chest
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    Charcoal Natural Wood Beads (8mm)

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    These round wooden beads are made of top quality natural wood and are perfect for your jewelry and craft projects. Available in a variety of natur...

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  • Black Tube Natural Wood Beads (7x5mm) - The Bead Chest
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    Black Tube Natural Wood Beads (7x5mm)

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    These tube-shaped wooden beads are made of top quality natural wood and are perfect for your jewelry and craft projects. Available in a variety of ...

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  • Charcoal Natural Wood Beads (20mm) - The Bead Chest
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    Charcoal Natural Wood Beads (20mm)

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    These round wooden beads are made of top quality natural wood and are perfect for your jewelry and craft projects. Available in a variety of natur...

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  • Black Diamond Cut Natural Wood Beads (12mm) - The Bead Chest
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    Black Diamond Cut Natural Wood Beads (12mm)

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    These diamond-shaped wooden beads are made of top quality natural wood and are perfect for your jewelry and craft projects. Available in a variety ...

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  • Black Diamond Cut Natural Wood Beads (20mm) - The Bead Chest
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    Black Diamond Cut Natural Wood Beads (20mm)

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    These diamond-shaped wooden beads are made of top quality natural wood and are perfect for your jewelry and craft projects. Available in a variety ...

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  • Smooth Black Rudraksha Mala Prayer Beads (8mm) - The Bead Chest
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    Smooth Black Rudraksha Mala Prayer Beads (8mm)

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    Admire these lovely smooth Black Rudraksha Mala Prayer beads. This strand of Natural Seed Mala beads comes to us all the way from the mountains of ...

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  • Black Tube Natural Wood Beads (15x8mm) - The Bead Chest
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    Black Tube Natural Wood Beads (15x8mm)

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    These tube-shaped wooden beads are made of top quality natural wood and are perfect for your jewelry and craft projects. Available in a variety of ...

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  • Black Saucer Natural Wood Beads (15mm) - The Bead Chest
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    Black Saucer Natural Wood Beads (15mm)

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    These wooden saucer beads are made of top quality natural wood and are perfect for your jewelry and craft projects. Available in a variety of finis...

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  • Charcoal Natural Wood Beads (10mm) - The Bead Chest
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    Charcoal Natural Wood Beads (10mm)

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    These round wooden beads are made of top quality natural wood and are perfect for your jewelry and craft projects. Available in a variety of natur...

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  • Black Round Wooden Arabian Prayer Beads (3mm) - The Bead Chest
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    Black Round Wooden Arabian Prayer Beads (3mm)

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    Evocative of a lost world, these beautiful Arabian prayer beads have been handcrafted by a master artisan. Their smooth quality has a refined and t...

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  • Jumbo Vintage Coconut Shell Heishi Beads (16-20mm) - The Bead Chest
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    Jumbo Vintage Coconut Shell Heishi Beads (16-20mm)

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    Beautiful strand of heishi beads made from the shell of a coconut. The size of beads may vary slightly from strand to strand however these beads wi...

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  • Mauritanian Inlaid Ebony Wood Bicone Beads (34x20mm) - The Bead Chest
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    Mauritanian Inlaid Ebony Wood Bicone Beads (34x20mm)

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    Brought to you from a village not far from Western Mali, these beautiful ebony wood beads are uniquely inlaid with a traditional tribal pattern usi...

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  • Petite Ebony Mali Prayer Beads (5x9mm) - The Bead Chest
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    Petite Ebony Mali Prayer Beads (5x9mm)

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    Great strand of smaller size prayer beads from Mali. These small beads are great for bracelets and earrings. The ebony wood has been individually i...

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  • Black Nugget Natural Wood Beads (5mm) - The Bead Chest
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    Black Nugget Natural Wood Beads (5mm)

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    These nugget-shaped wooden beads are made of top quality natural wood and are perfect for your jewelry and craft projects. Available in a variety o...

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  • Dark Round Natural Ebony Beads (4mm) - The Bead Chest
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    Dark Round Natural Ebony Beads (4mm)

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    Add a dark and finely textured feel to your DIY jewelry designs with these lovely Round Natural Ebony Beads. Smaller Ebony Beads like this make for...

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  • Black Oval Wooden Arabian Prayer Beads (5x8mm) - The Bead Chest
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    Black Oval Wooden Arabian Prayer Beads (5x8mm)

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    Evocative of a lost world, these beautiful Arabian prayer beads have been handcrafted by a master artisan. Their smooth quality has a refined and t...

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  • Dark Round Natural Ebony Beads (8mm) - The Bead Chest
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    Dark Round Natural Ebony Beads (8mm)

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    Add a rich texture and touch to your jewelry designs with these sleek Dark Round Natural Ebony Beads. These particular Ebony beads are great for br...

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  • Black Rudraksha Mala Prayer Beads (8mm) - The Bead Chest
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    Black Rudraksha Mala Prayer Beads (8mm)

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    These classically chic and simple Black Rudraksha Mala Prayer Beads can make a great addition to your jewelry making supplies. These beautiful Pray...

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With their warm colors and striking natural inclusions, its hardly surprising that African Wood Beads were once a coveted format of currency among the indigenous tribes of Africa. The exchange of wooden beads for goods can be traced back to the Neolithic era in 10000 B.C when humans pioneered crop cultivation, and began to farm land for both self sufficiency and profit. According to historian Lois Dubin, wooden beads were also prized among the Neolithic Egyptians, with many burying great hoards alongside their dead believing that money would aid them in the afterlife. For many tribes, Wood Beads are an ecological preference over newer materials such as glass and plastic. The Maasai people of Kenya are particularly renowned for their ethical approach, and still prefer to use wooden beads for their elaborate tiered collars and exuberant pendants which distinguish them from other clans. Wooden Heishi Beads are among the earliest known formats to be produced for adornment. Both the Surma of Ethiopia and the Dogon tribes of Mali reproduced shell Heishi Beads from soft woods and bamboo, strings of which would often be exchanged with other clans for weaponry and animals. Distinguished by its reddish-brown hue and beautiful natural inclusions, Rosewood has become a particularly popular material for bead-craft among tribes in Ghana, the Congo and Cameroon. Usually round or oval in shape, Rosewood Beads are often used to create strings of Prayer Beads, or as accents for necklaces made of lighter woods, such as Olive and Palm. Known for their hardiness and durability, Olive Wood Beads have proven particularly popular for African Rosaries, and you'll find many are carved with symbols that have some kind of religious connotation. Palm Wood Beads, made from the timber of coconut bearing palm trees, are also becoming increasingly popular in the West. A delicious golden hue with flecks of dark brown, they make for beautiful focal spacers for Bohemian necklaces and chunky African bracelets!

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