Red Amber Resin Bead Earrings -Paul #3

This pair is made of semi-fossilized amber resin also known as copal. Paul makes his Jewelry in the Westlands Market where he has a workshop not much bigger than a telephone box. His jewelry has beads from all over Africa. These earrings feature a bead of red amber resin, often called copal, which is accented with bohemian striped trade beads. Only in my jewelry can all of Africa get along, Paul Muragu says, smiling. Working in a shed the size of a telephone booth in the Nairobi Westlands, He has beads from Mali, Niger, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Ghana, and many parts of Kenya, just to name a few. He makes many of the metal beads himself and buys glass beads from a womens cooperative in Nairobi that makes the beads from recycled glass. Paul loves to tell the secrets of the beads.

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