string bracelets

Inspired by Mother Nature, Lorena Cofino designs and crafts the bracelet, hand-stringing it with natural beads of earthen jasper alongside black and white jade, alternating with petite coconut shell beads. Combining brown shades of the earth, this innovative bracelet makes a wondrous accessory.

These beaded bracelets make striking and trendy companions wherever they go. Artisans from the Andean highlands handcraft the three stretch bracelets with tiger's eye and stamped beads of ceramic in earthy tones. Dina presents her own designs in these bracelets.

Warm reddish-brown agate beads are like droplets of chocolate in this pretty stretch bracelet from Sang Ayu, a member of Bhakti Senang Hati. This non-profit foundation in Bali assists the physically disabled in developing self-esteem and physical and economic independence. The artisan strings the enhanced agate gems on elastic cord for a classic bracelet design.

A palette of warm and natural tones embellishes an eco-friendly creation crafted in Ghana by Mary Dzidzienyo. The artisan uses recycled glass and sese wood to create the beads that form this stretch bracelet, titled Dzika, an Ewe word meaning “heart string.”

Inspired by the remnants of a sleeping volcano, Sang Ayu Sardiwati of Bhakti Senang Hati association crafts this striking bracelet. Lava stone and brown agate beads are skillfully strung to create a stretch bracelet. Lava stone is known in Indonesian culture to dissipate anger and to strengthen one's connection to Mother Earth.

Sang Ayu Sardiwati joined the foundation after obtaining a prosthetic leg as a result of a working accident when she was an adolescent. She uses her handcrafting skills as a therapeutic means of providing for her family.