Measurements: 38mm across by 8mm thick with a 6mm centre hole
Quantity per pack: 1
These beads / donuts / pendants can be anything you want them to be. Knot them onto a funky necklace, use as a centre piece on a choker, decorate home wares, anything really. They are heavy so definitely not good for earrings!
Tiny little faces (all different) have been pressed into the opaque black glass base.'
Colours: Black with blue, red, orange, brown, green, yellow, white and every now and then a bit of transparent glass in colours also.
They were decorated with slices of decorative glass canes pressed onto the outside, then rolled in a mould whilst still hot. You can see some whorls from the rolling procedure on some of them.
The faces have been added in no particular order or style, so each donut is absolutely unique. Sizes may vary as they are all handmade in quite a rustic way.
Often called Venetian Trade Beads, they were made as trading beads to the Americas and Africa.
Origin: Hand Made in India - We believe this bead to be a reproduction of a Trade Bead.
Bead Shack made a huge bead haul around 2007, and these beads were quite old before that. The man we purchased them from used to collect large hauls of beads that became available, so who knows how long ago they were made! Our best guess would be around 1980s.
