Original Message:   Re: "Eje" --- "Aja" bead question.

Aja is an African name for this type of sliced beads. The beads (and their name) came from the trade in Nigeria and Aja is probably a Hausa word. Some are just sliced from drawn tubes in the cold state, but most go to additional labor. The thin slices are heated, squeezed and flattened with a tool in the hot state that give them a distinctive distorted look. I believe they were made that way in Murano, at least the squashed version. JP Copyright 2024 All rights reserved by Bead Collector Network and its users

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