Beads Cocktail Necklace

Creativity has no beginning and no end, so does the art of bead designing it always re-emerges in different forms and contexts. Beads in Ghana symbolizes links among people in different ways through all aspects of life, it also represents the link between heritage,creativity and change. This necklace includes beads made from wide variety of materials, coral,trade beads, ebony, coconut shells,recycled brass, recycled glass, seeds and stone.it is a piece of variety of beads used by Ghanians in different cultural and traditional occasions.
The weight is 2kg.
email us for more info or if you have any questions: info [at] eShopAfrica.com.

eShopAfrica cotton, handpainted T-shirts

Cotton T shirts, handpainted one of a kind. Cool and chic

Young girls learning how to weave baskets

The art of basket weaving:- These young girls from North of Ghana are learning how to weave on weekends. eShopAfrica supported and encouraged such moves so as to keep these traditional beautiful Bolga baskets for generations to come

Colourful African Back Packs

These cute back packs are very practicale, 100% cotton, washable, can be customized to any size, most of all affordable, Wow!!

African Dolls

These activity dolls are not dolls for play, but rather collector dolls that reflect the different jobs undertaken by women in Ghana. They illustrate the traditional roll of women as they perform their day to day activities.

These lovely active ladies have come to our office on their way to the UK!

Recycled glass buttons

The production of recycled buttons is not as simple as one might expect. All buttons undergo a rigorous selection process, and a lot are rejected. During this process the artisan has to exhibit a lot of skill, they carefully, and quickly insert two holes while the glass button is still very hot. An inability to perforate the buttons correctly will results in cracks.

When done correctly, the final result is an extremely

exquisiteglass bead. Delighted, our customer was really

happy with the manual effort put into the whole production process. From broken glass to colourful beads!!

But wait! There is more! Out of the rejected buttons comes a new creation…

button and bead necklaces!! Isn’t that great!!

Octopus arrived in Viennna

Dear Erick, Kwather, Hatim and all the other great people at e-shopAfrica!

Last week I got the notice from the airport here in Vienna that the big box had arrived. So on Tuesday night I drove to the airport to get it and as soon as I told the customs that there is a beautiful coffin from Ghana inside, the customs guy was more than interested to see it. So after almost two hours we went to the storage to see the coffin. The crate was already open and it was the first time for me to see the octopus for real. What a beautiful artwork!!

The customs officer checked everything and suddenly he asked me what the other thing inside was. I told him that I have no idea and he just opened the paper a little bit and as soon as he saw that it was painted wood again, I was allowed to take everything with me but I didn´t open the inner package until I got home. There was a big “hello” from my whole family (my wife and my two kids) once the saw the great chest and the beautiful crab – thanks so much!!!!! My kids decided that the crab shall be named “Zwicki” (which basically means that it can “pinch”) and I gave the name “Bruno” to the octopus in memory of a good friend (a sculptor as Erick) who passed away in late February.

Together we installed both pieces on a high wall in our living room/library and as you can see on the photo we just simply love them! I will invite some friends to celebrate the arrvial of “Buno” and “Zwicki” and I will do my best to get at least one of them to order another chest! One already siad that he is considering one in the sahpe of a guitar…..

Once again, I wanted to say what great work all of you have done for me a and that I highly appriciate your efforts and the nice communication! Keep up the great work and I will spread the news about you fantastic shop!

Regards and big hugs from all of us here in Vienna!

Peter, Angi, Sophie, Max; Bruno and Zwicki

Graduation Kente stoles

Hi...

Graduate with pride this year wearing our special

Class of Year Kente strip.

We can personalize any of these items with lettering patterns

and colour of your choice,

weaving a personalised kente strip

makes a unique memento of the occasion

We are next to the Artisans!!!!

Stars pendants

1.Recycled bottles will be crushed into pieces which called"fritt"

2.The moulds are put into a kiln to be baked.

The kiln has to be hot enough to melt down the lumps of glass in the fritt.

3.The hole made by an awl... this is skilled work which has to be done

quickly before the glass cools.

4.When cool they are polished on a stone using sand and water. This grinds down the rough edges and removes the kaolin.

5. Cute and beautiful...what do you think????