Our next delivery of beautiful beads are on their way from Uganda, here you can learn how they are made.
The main form of advertising in Uganda is by brightly colored posters glued and nailed onto every available tree, fence, wall, car, and other available surfaces. The posters overlap forming layer after layer of colors advertising political candidates, upcoming concerts, and spreading AIDS awareness.
What happens to the extra posters? Or to the misprints? They find their way to the second hand market, are bought by little Ugandan ladies, and eventually start life anew in our countries as beautiful paper bead jewelry.
Selecting paper is important, as the colors of the paper come together to form the color of the bead. The paper is measured along each side, and marked at a certain distance, say one centimeter. Then lines are drawn back and forth across the paper from one mark to another, forming hundreds of long skinny triangles. The triangles are then cut and set aside for rolling. Read more at the Grassroots Uganda site.
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