A Gardeners Forum Forums Members History Forum Life 2006 Botanical Beads

Hi, this questions has been in my head for some time now...does anyone grow or know of any botanical beads? Botanical beads are usually seeds/natural material that can be made into a bead without any altering (aside from drilling holes). Botanical beads are not bone or wood beads. These are the ones that I use and sometimes grow, anyone know of more?

Joob's Tears
Olive Pits
chinaberries
Rosary Pea
Castor Beans

I think my gramma had a necklace that was made of acorns and there were little red seed beads in between each acorn.

Would a cherry pit work?

I have a wonderful table doily made from apple seeds, also persimmon seeds have been used to create some nice things.

Please tell me more?

Cherry pits...that might work. Well, actually, anything can work. I just like to make rosaries from these to give and sell to people. I'm glad others have heard of these beads (for a while I thought I was going nuts, turns out I'm not!) Job's Tears were used by Mother Teresa and JohnPaul II to make their rosaries. Olivepits usually come from Jerusalem (that's where I buy mine). If you'd like to see some things that I've made from Job's Tears, you can visit my website (not sure if I should post it here, it's a selling site, I can PM you the link)