#kiffastyle

Absolutely in love with this colorful strand of contemporary Kiffa beads from Mauritania. Kiffa beads are rare powder glass beads, named after the Mauritanian city of Kiffa, where French ethnologist R.Mauny documented them first in 1949. Kiffa beads  represent one of the highest levels of artistic skill and ingenuity in beadmaking, being manufactured with the simplest materials and tools available: pulverized European glass beads or fragments of them, bottle glass, pottery shards, tin cans, twigs, steel needles, some gum arabic, and open fires. #kiffa #kiffabeads #mauritania #kiffastyle #handmadebeads #handmadejewelry #artglass #glassbeads #handmadeglassbeads #handmadeglass #wearableart #uniquebeads #pattern #patternedbeads #fashion #style #shop #nyc #unionsquare #beadsofparadise (at Beads of Paradise NYC) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZXerTUuDq1/?utm_medium=tumblr

Absolutely in love with the colorful strand of contemporary Kiffa beads from Mauritania. Kiffa beads are rare powder glass beads, named after the Mauritanian city of Kiffa, where French ethnologist R.Mauny documented them first in 1949. Kiffa beads  represent one of the highest levels of artistic skill and ingenuity in beadmaking, being manufactured with the simplest materials and tools available: pulverized European glass beads or fragments of them, bottle glass, pottery shards, tin cans, twigs, steel needles, some gum arabic, and open fires. #kiffa #kiffabeads #mauritania #kiffastyle #handmadebeads #handmadejewelry #artglass #glassbeads #handmadeglassbeads #handmadeglass #wearableart #uniquebeads #pattern #patternedbeads #fashion #style #shop #nyc #unionsquare #beadsofparadise (at Beads of Paradise NYC) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDw6XI9B3_E/?igshid=1g9cos9r7lufx