Masterwork Barley Cut Red Bakalite Prayer Beads (Misbaha – Sebha)

Bakelite is perhaps the most unusual material that is available in almost any color and shade. For a hundred years, jewelry masters have been using Bakelite to make incredibly beautiful jewelry.
Bakelite is colored when it is in liquid phase at high temperature. Then it is poured into a special mold and gets solid.
Bakelite is a perfect material even for the boldest design ideas of jewelers. Bakelite is easily worked by all sorts of machining like: drilling, grinding, cutting, and threading. The unique palette of Bakelite shades is rich in a variety of mathematizing colors: burnt sugar, egg yolk, whipped corn and many others.