Yellow Prosser Beads 6mm

A strand of yellow  button-like Prosser Beads on raffia 34″ long. The beads are around 6 mm. Hole opening around .5 mm.  These are great spacer beads.

Prosser beads are by extension any beads made by the ‘Prosser’ technique, invented by the Prosser brothers in 1840 in England for the purpose of making buttons. The process consists of molding a cold paste under great pressure and then firing it.