Happy 2013 and happy almost-year-of-the-snake! It's been a while since my last post (thanks to David, Mike and Paul for pointing this out - you guys are so bossy), so I'll kick off the new year with something very close to my heart.
At the end of last year I visited a wonderful bead 'production plant' - hard to describe because it was a lovely outdoor affair along a dusty dirt road, with a riot of bottles, kilns and paints combining to make the most amazing beads.
Most Ghana beads are actually made from old bottles, windows and broken beads that have been ground up and re-fired in home-made pottery moulds with a cassava tree 'wick' for a hole.
Once the beads are cool, they're rolled by hand to perfect the shape and then polished in these shallow stone dishes with sand and water.
Needless to say, I'm doing what I can for the Ghanaian bead economy.
2 comments:
Delighted to see you back here! The beads are gorgeous. Keep up the good work ;-) Karin
Hi Karin and happy 2013 AND almost year of the snake!
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