Huayruru Seeds' Beads

Why use these natural seeds' beads in your jewelry and crafts? in addition to its natural beauty, these natural seeds grow on trees at the Peruvian rain forests, by using them in your jewelry you are doing two things:

1- Providing income to the local tribes by allowing them have a substancial income from their trees so they will protect and nurture their natural sources and habitat.

2- You use a natural substance in your jewelry and crafts which was not produce in an industrial process so you save the pollutant emitions side effects when producing findings made of metal, plastic, glass etc.

The picture is of big "Huayruru" natural seeds with out the black spot on each- pure red seeds. Used in jewelry and crafts. Also known by the names of: Prayer beans (U.K.), Rosary beans, Crab's eye & Lady bug seeds (U.S.).