-60%
- Show your love with this tiny, hand-beaded, heart brooch.
- 1″W x 1″H
- Glass bead exterior; plastic filling
- Spot clean
- Handmade and Fairly Traded
- Made by a women’s co-operative in a small village on the shores of Lake Atitlan in Guatemala.
- The women work in groups of five or so to produce these designs.
- The glass beads are placed in a multicolored pile upon a flat surface in front of each woman.
- Beads are picked up on needles held between each woman’s thumb and index finger.
- This process is quick and precise, resembling sleight of hand.
- As beads accrue, the sculpture emerges.
- Beaders must learn to weave or sculpt each new design separately.
- To achieve uniformity, they must memorize hundreds of steps for each figure.
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