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Necklace and keychain examples.
Sea-bean jewelry (and other Seaheart gifts) can be purchased from www.seaheart.com

Please visit a new Sea-Bean Jewelry website by Nan Rhodes: Sea-Beans from Exotic Lands
See the 4/25/2007 article in Florida Today about Nan Rhodes and her jewelry.

The lockets pictured below are made from Seahearts, Entada gigas.
  


The Coco-de-Mer or "Double Coconut"
  (A) opened fruit
(B) finished jewelry boxes
Note the polished nature, the hinges, and cut lines of the beans in the image on the right.
Coco-de-Mer images taken from: Gunn & Dennis, 1976;
The World Guide to Tropical Drift Seeds and Fruits


Links
Links to the Ruth Smith Collection & other Botanical Bead Collections
  • Botanical Beads of the World - by Ruth Smith

  • Bontanical Jewelry at Kew

  • Explore the World from Home with Botanical Beads

    • - article on Ruth Smith and her collection, by Susan Belsinger in The Herb Companion



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