BLACK — Black Wrist Mala Bracelets are by far the most popular of the low-priced jewelry. Black is in the artist’s color-chart “the total absence of color”, but it also stands for all the area of the Electro-Magnetic Spectrum that lies outside the tiny realm of humanly visible light.
The Black Light Mala is called the Mystery Mala — it responds to Black Light Stimulation. I don’t have examples of that here, but it’s good to know that they exist, making them visible to anyone in the Astral Plane or higher.
You can easily make Malas, Wrist Bracelet Malas and Necklace Malas with the simple but stunning — and very inexpensive “CHEAPO” copper beads that come in bulk and that you have to sort before using.
Because they’re so cheap, you can easily sell them for a lot more than you paid to make them, and they make great “loss-leaders” without taking a loss.
Yes, YOU can do it — you can become a master wire jewelry craftsperson, with the simple and inexpensive addition to your tool kit, of a pair of GOOD needle-nosed pliers to bend your wire, and an ACTUAL flush-cutter to cut your wire.
Beware of flush-cutters that don’t actually cut flush, meaning that the end is not sharp.
Those CHEAPO copper beads are SO cheap, but there’s a catch — you have to separate and sort them into piles of similar beads, and they are totally random, so you might get a lot of one thing and very little of another — it’s a total crap-shoot, but they ARE really cheap!
What about the wooden beads?
Well, the hardwood beads — which come in every color of the rainbow and in a variety of wood types and tones as well — come directly to me from Czechoslovakia, and they are really, really cheap, just a few cents apiece, because I import them myself!
The fancy copper beads? Those I also import — they come to me from Far-Off India, in a humungously large plastic bag, and are sold by the pound or by the kilogram, depending on how close to the importer you get.
Retail for these beads is still cheap by any standard, but why pay it, when I can get it for you wholesale???
Problem with the CHEAPO copper beads is that the bag is “mixed”, meaning totally random bits and types of copper beads will find their way into that bag.
You’ll get great beads, but not in any predictable type or style. It’s up to YOU to pick through them, and organize them into separate piles of similar stuff.
I use small papier-mache cardboard boxes that I import from the Philippines for the purpose of separating and sorting the copper beads. Now, please take note that some of them are coated with a silvery wash and some are left as plain copper, depending on the kind of bag you get. Most bags are all-copper, a combination of caps and fillers.
The CHEAPO beads can be very fancy indeed, but keep in mind that in the end, these are CHEAPO beads, and they will wear like CHEAPO beads no matter what you do to enhance them.
If you want GREAT ACTUAL GRANULATION copper beads, they’re gonna cost, and while you’re learning, you might as well not make expensive mistakes, although most mistakes in wire jewelry can easily be rectified.
It’s very easy to get started. Here, I’ll show you some examples to give you a few ideas for starters … Remember that the parts are cheap, and can easily be recovered, although you will lose some wire in the process of recovering beads improperly assembled, which will happen quite often at first, as careful as you may be.
BLACK & RED — Buddhist colors, yes, but black and red also combine Love & Mystery.
BLACK — The Unseen World.
VIOLET — Promotes Intuition.
BLUE — Peaceful Meditation & Serenity.
GREEN — Freedom from Envy & Jealousy, flourishing, Planetary Peace Prayers.
YELLOW — Promotes Feelings of Wellness, Balance & Harmony with the environment.
ORANGE — Promotes Will-Power, Confidence, Clarity & Attention.
RED — Love, Stability, Security.
WHITE — Promotes Clarity, Purification, Truth, Opening, Intelligence & Forgiveness.
The kits come in two sizes, the wrist mala — 9 elements @ $2 per element, which comes to $18 for the kit, and the heart necklace mala, which consists of 24 elements at $2 per element, which comes to $48. There is also an EXTRA-LONG mala which has 32 elements at $2 per element, so that’s $64 total for the larger kit, plus the shipping.
ALL CZECH GENUINE HARDWOOD RAINBOW BEADS for MALAS ARE $2 PER ELEMENT with the CHEAP HEDGEHOG spacers for your .20 gauge & .16 gauge projects.
NOTE PLEASE that .20 gauge projects require looping & winding on each end of every element.
CHEAPO HEDGEHOG beads cannot be used with .16 gauge wire — the hole is too narrow to accept it.
Hardwood beads and LARGE HEDGEHOG spacers can be used on .16 gauge or .20 gauge wire, as you prefer. CHEAPO HEDGEHOGS will require .20 gauge wire.
You can decide how many elements you want. Extra elements can always be clipped off and turned into earrings, which are, by the way, the most popular item I make & sell, with the largest profit-margin of all jewelry items.
NO WIRE is included in these kits — they are professional kits and require you to have on hand plenty of .20 gauge wire for your daily or nightly productions.
Tucking the wire ends beneath the metal side-beads takes the worry out of sharp points. For tips on how to do this very precisely, come to any of my workshops and I’ll be happy to show you on ZOOM how it’s done and I’ll watch you try and make suggestions, until you get it.
In addition to the malas mentioned above, I have developed the following SPECIALS:
CHRISTMAS — Red & Green with your choice of silver pewter on copper or plain copper Bali style small hedgehog spacer beads. Makes a great wrist mala and love-bead combo.
JULY 4th — Red, White & Blue combine to make a very patriotic fashion wearable, and the color benefits are there, too!!! (see above for color explanations).
BASTILLE DAY — Yes, the Red, White & Blue will do here, too! Happy 14 July!!!
HALLOWE’EN — I just had to put the apostrophe back in there where it belongs. Orange and Black make this Spooky special, but check out the COLOR BENEFITS!!!
MYSTICAL MAGIC — Red, Black & White are the traditional magickal blend.
CANOPY — Forest Green & Floral Yellow blended together make this a great healer’s item.
In addition to all these, I have in stock at the present time the following genuine hardwood DRUID Tree-Magic Malas:
MAHOGANY — Probably the most beautiful of the genuine Czech hardwood beads, this makes a stunningly beautiful heart or wrist mala, and can be fitted with a tassel.
BIRCH — These can be written upon with permanent ink, and make an incredible BLESSING mala to give to someone who needs spirit help fast.
OLIVE WOOD — Not actually the wood of the olive tree, this hardwood bead is stained and polished with a beautiful olivene finish. It is idea for both the healer and healee. Two of these will resonate powerfully together, and can be Quantum-Linked for couples. I find this a very potent and highly mystical addition to the Power Bracelet Continuum.
TEAK — Eminently writable beads, using permanent ink, teak has long been associated with higher magic and inter-dimensional properties. It can be used for the deepest meditation malas and is favored for power-healing and divination.
ORION EMO BEADS — As pictured above, these are only $5per element with the small Hedgehog beads, and just $10 per element in the larger Hedgehog bead, subject to availability.
MANDRAKE ROOT — Not actually mandrake, of course, this is a natural hardwood bead which has been stained to resemble the color of mandrake root. Useful for all serious magickal operations, this works best with silver pewter spacers on the left wrist mala, and plain copper spacers on the right wrist mala. You can intersperse silver pewter and copper spacers all the way around the heart mala to keep the Schumann Tone balance. In the small Hedgehog, the kit is only $2 per element, and in the larger Hedgehog, $5 per element, subject to availability — highlight that phrase, it’ll come in handy right often.
Combinations of colors and woods create a variety of magickal effects. You can email or ask questions on the Morning Show or at one of my workshops, about the range and types of effects possible with these powerful MALA BEAD School Tools.
I have a number of related items up on eBay for your convenience, under the seller “insane investor”. Visit my emporium to find bargains galore for resellers and gift-givers. Corporate gifting is a specialty of mine, and I’m happy to discuss plans for any item or business event you have in mind.
Wedding and Graduation are another important area. These malas can be used as Quantum Bonding Agents.
White & Silver Pewter wrist and heart malas can be exchanged and halves blended by CEREMONIAL QUANTUM LINKING performed by you at the wedding or reception — sometimes a High Mass isn’t the time or place to be whipping out a pair of needlenosed pliers and an Opti-Vision magnifying hood, but in my house it’d fit right in.
I have resisted the impulse to post every photo of every variety of mala, but I can’t do it and leave room for anything else.
There are many other specialty items that can be created with these wonderful and colorful hardwood beads and fancy CHEAPO COPPER spacers.
One important question was asked — “Should we make our own beads?” The answer to that is what my grandpa, a dress manufacturer, said to me many years ago: “Never make something that someone is already making available at a reasonable price.”
In short, keep your energy for the projects that are unique to you and that further your work. Don’t fall for the trap of “if I make it myself, it’ll be cheaper.” One thing you WILL learn in this trade is that there is no substitute for quality — not just of merchandise, but of great higher purpose and total artistic integrity.
See You At The Top!!!
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