Native American Bead Earrings

Posted in: Design by weddingcometrue | March 11th 2010 | no comments

Native American bead earrings, accessible originality - A beaded earring is generally described to be an earring, which has a small piece of plastic or metal with a hole through it, finally put on a string. Until now, you have seen some models of Hopi and Navajo earrings. At first glance, they have a spiritual print, which will surely individualize you in a crowd. Native American bead earrings follow the same rule: they are cheap, original, colorful and sometimes symbolic.



Most of native American bead earrings are like multi-colored cascades of plastic rows. They are incredibly cheap and funny, thanks to their light and joyful colors such as yellow, white, light green, blue, aquamarine blue, red, light brown, light pink or orange. Imagine one morning without any mood for searching in your jewelry box for a casual pair of earrings, there you find this thick and colored earrings to save the day.

Their general price is between 10-20$. If you adjust to it, the fact that the beaded rows are mostly handcrafted, you will probably wear them everyday. The special thing about them is that rows differ as colors and as design: some are long, linear and divided in three or more segments of colors, others look like triangles divided in even smaller different colored triangles and the average of Native American bead earrings is a hybrid between the mentioned shapes- they start as triangles and end as linear rows.

This last shape is called by jewelers “beaded pyramids”. Native beaded earrings having loop shapes are also common, they can even be longer and actually hang over your shoulders. The price stays the same, between 15- 30$, as well as the multi-colored design.

For personalized gifts, jewelers thought of beaded cradle with baby earrings (about 22$), for pregnant women or future mothers, beaded wedding basket with prominent stars earrings at the same price, beaded laughing girl earrings (about 25$).

For something special and more elaborated, you can buy pink heart shell earrings (about 25$), wampum turquoise and silver earrings (about 35$)-resembling more to bracelets than to earrings, beaded corn earrings (about 38$), beaded prayer father feather earrings (about 26$) or beaded eagle feather earrings (about 35$). Still, if you are not satisfied by models on market and you feel overwhelmed by creativity, follow the tips on any jewelry blog and you will produce your own pair of native American beaded earrings.

All you need are scissors,  needles, beading threads, beeswax and many seed beads to play with.Any native American community has its own protecting animals or symbols. Sold as hot cakes are the following: black beaded bear earrings (about 19$)or little bird beaded earrings (about 10$), after all, it`s a matter of jewelry “taste”, each woman with her favorite representations.