Green Glass Bead Earrings - Paul #5

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 vintage glass emerald-green beads, accented with powder glass 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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