Individually hand carved beads, with hand braided cord and matching toggle fastening.

Number of beads: 9

Once highly valued for their precious materials and the painstaking effort required in their production, beads have been utilised as a form of currency in trade throughout history and unsurprisingly so. 

Carving a bead from rough rock is a work of love. A convex plane of carving is more difficult to accomplish freehand than a concave or linear form, especially when holding small objects. We fashion each bead in turn, slicing and then cubing the parent stone, cutting each corner from the rock, going over and over each piece multiple times, slicing and grinding until we are happy with the balance and curvature of the form.