The History of Beads

In Southeast Asia and the South Pacific region, beaded jewelry has served as personal adornment, protective amulets, and political badges of rank, as well as dowries, ceremonial exchange goods, and sacred altar objects. The earliest beads in Southeast Asia were excavated from Neolithic caves in Borneo, and date from 2,500 to 1,000 BC Most of the hundreds of large and small islands in the South Pacific have been accessible to seaborne traders, and beads have been an important element in the region’s trade for thousands of years. Because of sea trade routes linking India, China, western Asia and Europe, the peoples of Taiwan, Indonesia, and the Philippines were significantly influenced by these cultures. Other excavated sites contain beads of agate, carnelian, crystal and amethyst from India and Sri Lanka. Glass beads came from India during the 1st century AD, and Roman-style “eye beads” reached Southeast Asia in the early middle ages before the 12th century.

Prayer Beads are commonly associated with the middle-ages (A.D 600-140) and Roman Catholicism. Today, the religions of nearly two-thirds of the world’s population utilize some form of prayer beads.

Worry Beads, like prayer beads are made from a great many materials, plastic, glass, wood, amber and semi-precious stones. Their primary function is as a release for tension which provides a security that may in fact be subconsciously spiritual.

Beads are an important part of a communicative system in all African societies. Adornment, particularly with beads, communicates cultural values in a symbolic language that express rank, religion, politics and artistic attitudes.
In the Western world we tend to take for granted the Bead, but when we truly think of their use they become little secrets of history that reflect our past and present, and for those to come, our future.

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Professional Bali Beaders

Name : Ibu Mangku
Date of birth : -
School : -
Home : Bali, Indonesia.






Beading Experience:
I used to work in an art shop in Ubud around 1980’s for a few years. Someday, on my way back home to my village on the west of Ubud, I passed by a shop that was selling especially beaded pieces and the one that attracted was a magnificent beaded basket. It was truly interested pieces and straight away I was into the piece. I encouraged myself to get some beads and a small basket to start learning to create this artwork. It took me many days to figure out the pattern on doing this artwork and was so happy with my progress day by day. You can imagine how happy I was when I could get my basket completely done and admired my works for days. After my first work, I have been happily doing basket by basket up to the present days.
I taught my husband and kids to do the beadworks like what I do. My husband is a temple priest and he hardly can be working away from our village like other men so he was so happy when I asked him to learn to bead. We have been passionately doing this work for around 20 years now. Our daughter is also falling in love in this work even if we never push her to do what we have been doing for 20 years. We have taught many people from our village to bead and there are many school children who are doing it to make extra money for their school. We are very happy to have a great opportunity to help others in our village and we love to invite everyone who loves this artwork to experience it with us. We always ready to share our experience in beadworks.

Young Bali Beaders

Our children are so passionate to create the beatiful beaded baskets after school to make some school money. They have dream for their future, a simple dream, to be better educated than their parents and they have to help their parents in making their dreams come true. They have a wonderful smile, and we all have to keep them smiling....


Name : Komang Sri Adnyani Manuati
Date of birth : 12/02/98
School : Elementary 2nd grade.
Home : Bali, Indonesia
Beading Experience:

I have been learning to bead from my mother when I was 4 years old. I got so excited to see my mom doing this wonderful basket and it made so keen to try to d it myself. I used to bead my mom’s basket when she was busy at the kitchen cooking and she got upset because I was massing up her work but it made so excited to learn and exercise more everyday.

Now, I can bead my own little basket quit nicely and one day I will do the big ones and my mom will be proud on me. Wish me luck!

Name : Ni Wayan Rinadi
Date of birth :
School : 6th grade of Elementary school.
Home : Bali, Indonesia. Beading Experience: I love to spend my free time after school to do this work and it feels so great to be able to make a little money for my future and help my parents. I hope that I can continue my education with this part time activity. I got to school from 7:30 Am and out from school at around 12:00 so I have plenty of time in the afternoon to bead, but I am not forgetting my homework.

Here you can see that I am doing my medium basket, it is so fun to play with the colorful seed beads.

Name : Ni Wayan Eka
Date of birth : 1981
School : Junior High School Graduate
Home : Bali, Indonesia.
Beading Experience: My mom is the first bead worker in my village and I was starting to learn to bead when I was 4 years old and I have been doing the bead work for 20 years. Well, I am not sure how many baskets that I have created in the period of time. I am so happy to have the knowledge in creating beaded baskets and happy to teach my friends in the village to do the work.














Here you can see some of my works.

It is a big basket that I am working on right now and wish that you like the colors and my tradional design on it. I love doing big pieces as it makes me so proud to it when it is done.

Name : Ni Nyoman Sumendri
Date of birth : May 22nd, 1986
School : Junior High School Graduate.
Home : Bali, Indonesia.


Beading Experience: I firstly learnt to bead from a bead woman in my village. I have been doing beadworks for about 8 years now since I was at elementary school. My parents are rice farmers and were hardly work to pay for my school so I was really happy to be invited to learn to bead where I could make a little money to pay for my school. My parents gave me a great support on my work and were so happy because I could make some money from my work. I could not continue my studies to Senior High school which was a bit disappointing but I am happy enough to have a choice to keep my work on beading. I have done many pieces over 8 years and happy to have people around the world to collect my art pieces.

Here are some of my works, I hope that you are enjoying what I have created and I will keep learning to do better in my works as I have been really falling in love to what I have done for 8 years.

My warmest regards,


Nyoman.











Name : Ni Wayan Sutarmi
Date of birth : March 30th, 1989
School : Junior High School Graduate
Home : Bali, Indonesia.



Beading Experience: Well, for 5 years spending my time on beadworks is truly amazing. It was really so desperate to learn at first, as I couldn’t figure out the pattern and my way around this beadwork but I was not that easy to give up even it took me a week to really find my way to gather thousands seed beads to create a beautiful design. I can not tell how happy I was when I got my first piece and I couldn’t sleep at night without my first beaded basket. I am happy for myself not to give up but kept trying and trying. I think that we can make it happen if we want to and that is my motto,” Never give up “.

Beaded Baskets

We strongly committed to help income people for generating livelihoods, by providing employment and income opportunities, and marketing their products. We deeply consider it as a way to support the survival of traditional craft and our local artisans who have been contributing their time, effort, creativity and passion in creating these wonderful handicrafts. We trade our finest beadworks from the local bead workers who live in a small village of Taman and Bongkasa, to the west from the art village of Ubud, Bali. Our participation in exposing the art works to the world has generated and woken up many young artisans to develop their talent and creativity to preserve the valuable artwork. It has been helping family and children of the village to support their daily needs and education.

All of our products that we offer to our customers are of a very high quality workmanship that is deeply rooted with our tradition and culture. Our products are a great devotion of our craftsmen who are strongly holding on to their tradition, culture and religion. The colorful design and motif of our beaded baskets are reflection of our nature, spirit and our living ancient cultures.


Our Bali Unique Beaded Baskets are created on rattan woven basket which various kinds of beautiful shapes and sizes. Our products are truly pieces for collectors as well as for travel’s gifts, presents and for fabulous home interior decors. We are also welcome our customers of self-designs enquiries for your products requirements and we are going to be more than please to create them in our work.

Our people have been involved in these bead works for a long time and have been creating thousands of beaded baskets that have been collected by people from around the world. We are happy to offer our handmade products straight away from the craftsmen of the village.


It is definitely a great pride for us to be able to help the local craftsmen to receive what they deserve to from their hard work, patience, and time in creating these beautiful pieces of beaded baskets. They are also very happy to accept your own designs products and other related inquiries.

We are happily offering you our best deals for all of our works. So please do not hesitate to contact us for further details information on our products. We widely open our doors for anyone who would love to learn to do the beadworks with us in our beautiful small village and share all the experience with our friendly villagers.

Welcome to Taman Village, Bali!

Welcome to our village, Taman. It is a small village that lies on the altitude of 300 m above sea level, inhabited by about 5,000 people and divided into 7 sub-villages. Most of the people are farmers where they grow rice, corn, peanut, cocoa, coconut and other tropical fruit trees are widely grown here in the village. Our village is very self-sufficient of foods as we grow most of our food supplies. It is our welcoming statue of Dewi Sri as the goddess of Rice in our Balinese Hindu Religion. We have the statue of Dewi Sri because our village is mainly living on farming. We pray the she always bless our crops and our soil with prosperity and fertility.











Ceremonies in Our village:
A hundred percent of our people are Balinese Hindu Dharma followers, and we have many festivals that we have all year around such as Village Temple festivals known as Odalan in the Balinese term and other Major Hindu festivals.














Daily offerings:


We make beautiful daily offerings that we place on our family temple everyday to worship the greatness of the Almighty God so that we always being blessed with peacefulness, harmonious and prosperity.










Most of the people are farmers where they grow rice, corn, peanut, cocoa, coconut and other tropical fruit trees are widely grown here in the village. Our village is very self-sufficient of foods as we grow most of our food supplies.




Rice Farm.


We are surrounded scenic rice paddies, a very peaceful and harmonious panorama that always give us a new energy to continue our daily routine with no stress. Our local farmers have been farming rice for hundreds of years and have been preserving the irrigation system for same period of time. With our great natural irrigation system, we can grow rice all year round. Our farmers have a great respect to natural resources such as water so ceremonies are always conducted periodically. Small shrine is built on their rice field where small beautiful offerings are placed on every Hindu’s holidays.




Fruits Farming


There are wide ranges of tropical fruits that we grow in our village such as Durian, Rambutan, Manggoesten, Pineapple, Mango, Snake Fruits, Papaya, Jack Fruit, Coconut, etc The soil is so fertile and the great tropical climate that we have here in Bali allow our fruits trees keep producing all year round but of course some of them are very seasonal.











Vanilla, Cocoa and Coffee farm.














We also grow lots of Vanilla, Coffee and Cocoa for chocolate in our village.



















We welcome you to have a walk around our village to gain knowledge about our farming as well as learning about our local vegetations. We always open the door of our village for everyone to come and visit us and we will be so proud to have your visit to our village of Taman.


Handicrafts.

Besides farming, many of the people are working as craftsmen of wood carving, basket’s weaving and bead’s work. Starting from school children and adults are involved in the work of craftsmanship to support their life and in preserving the art itself to be passed down to the next generation. Patient and hard work are being a part of our daily life and are shown in the people artworks as a reflection of our religion and culture. Beautiful woven objects are made in everyday life like our beautiful daily offerings that is woven from a young coconut leaf. It is a way for us to express our sense of art and beauty and as a way to thank to the God for all the blessings that we have been accepting in our life.