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Kazuri Beads

Nairobi / Karen (Karen Blixen estate)

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What Kazuri Beads is known for

Hand-rolled, hand-painted ceramic beads from the old Karen Blixen coffee estate — Lady Susan Wood began with two women in a garden shed in 1975; today hundreds of Kenyan women, most of them single mothers, shape clay from Mount Kenya into jewelry sold worldwide. Fair-trade certified, tours through the workshop, fixed prices in the shop.

Best for — ceramic jewelry with three hundred hands behind every strand.

Kenya — clay from the Mount Kenya foothills.

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