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Start making jewellery with chunky recycled glass beads from Ghana.

No fiddly seed beads or complicated weaving. These beads are big and colourful, the holes are bigger, and your first bracelet needs little more than elastic and a knot.

Get Started with African Recycled Glass Beads guide with beading tools and beads on a wooden tray

Download our free beginner's guide to Ghanaian recycled glass beads. It's the honest, practical information we wish we'd had when we started buying beads in Ghana 16 years ago.

Inside you'll find:

  • What these beads are, and how bead makers in Ghana turn discarded glass into them by hand
  • The mistakes that trip up most beginners, so your first piece isn't your last
  • The short list of basic tools worth having
  • Simple ways to make jewellery you'll wear, so you don't just buy supplies that sit in a drawer.

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