Brass Strand of Beads

Tight golden stacks that look machine-made until every ridge turns out slightly different.

This is a strand of beads. It is brass. Strands of metal beads were traditionally worn as ornament and as a form of portable wealth in many parts of Africa and Asia. Narrow disc beads are strung close, creating ribbed tubes in a warm matte gold. Some stretches are darker and dull, others catch a soft sheen. Frayed grey fibre bunches in the centre of the tangle.

Hand-made regularity, which is the best kind.