Painted Green Bead Earrings -Paul #7

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. Vintage glass green beads are painted with stripes to mirror the bohemian striped accent beads in these earrings. 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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