beads beads beads!!!

Without doubt the most common and favourite way to style dreadlocks is by wearing dreadlock beads. These also comes as charms, cuffs and coils.

Best thing about styling and accessorizing your dreadlocks is that you don't have to spend a fortune! Check out your own jewellery box, or keep a keen eye at the charity shop or craft supplies store. Make sure you visit a second hand market or car booth sale.

Your mission is to spot anything with a hole or anything where you can put a hole into: rings, necklace charms, trinkets, seashells, pieces of tube - any of these can easily be transformed into a perfect dread bead! Be innovative and make your locks cool and attractive!


Are you crafty? Then try to make your own amazing beads with polymer clay. Its super fun and don't take much time and money. There are no limits to what you can create with polymer clay - you just need to have a bit of artistry and creativity.

Just in case you need a little inspiration, here's a gallery of our collection:

Creating crafty & artistic dread beads

Last week we started working on new dreadlock rings. Since we want to have full freedom in creating various shapes and sizes, we are opting for a base material of polymer clay. This will also allow us to use many colours, textures and be able attach different organic stuff, such as shells, stones, gems etc.

Our previous stock consisted of an amazing collection from Nepal. The best sellers were bone and coconut. They all had interesting engravings of tribal and spiritual / religious symbols. Here are the last 4 rings that remain from the previous stock.

Clockwise:
1- Silver plated spirals ring (Eur 5)
2- Buffalo Bone large rings with lines (Eur 12)
3- Coconut ring with Buddha Eyes (Eur 8)
4- Brass ring with engraved circles (Eur 5)

Today I searched for some inspiration on the internet. We like to have a look at the creations other artists make. First of all to ensure that we do not create something which is already out there; and secondly, browsing other work provides inspiration. And when we breathe in inspiration, we eventually breathe out creativity! 

The new dread rings that KEEP CALM AND GET DREADLOCKS will feature will be keeping the same 'Tribal' theme, adding also a touch of 'Bohemian' and a pinch of 'Dark-adelic'  

Something between this:

and this

and this

And now let me share with you some beautiful work from other artists on Pinterest and Etsy:

Let's start with flowers

Playing with polymer to create special effects and textiles

 

 

Creating motifs and symbols

  

Embellishing

Mushrooms

  
Skulls

Characters and animals

Rainbow - simple, easy and effective!

And to finish off, here are some real cool dread rings.

Starting with this amazing Ganesha

Poetry on dread rings - this is definitely an original idea!
 

Shaped dread beads  - so cool

Also a very original idea - look like Scrabble marbles - create what you want!