Kazuri Beads
Handmade ceramic bead workshop where every piece is shaped, painted and fired twice by hand.
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This guide to Kazuri Beads in Nairobi starts with two women in Lady Susan Wood's back garden in 1975, rolling wet clay by hand because she wanted steady work for women who had none. You'll follow the clay's journey from the slopes of Mount Kenya near Nyeri down to this Karen workshop, and the hand-rolling, painting and double-firing that still shapes every bead. It traces how a two-person idea grew into a workshop watched through its own windows today.
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