Material comparison
Every material we craft beads from, in one table: price, rarity and character. From fossil mammoth ivory to aerospace titanium. Tap any material to see all its pieces and a full description.
Material Category Price Pieces Rarity
Sperm whale tooth Sperm whale tooth comes from the lower jaw of the largest toothed whale, a material famous in the sailors' art of scrimshaw, where whalers engraved… Bone & ivory 250–520 € 7 Rare Mammoth ivory Mammoth ivory is fossil bone that lay in the permafrost of Yakutia and Chukotka for ten to forty thousand years. Bone & ivory 120–500 € 25 Available Elephant ivory Elephant ivory is a material of great beauty and heavy reputation, and it must be spoken of plainly. Bone & ivory 100–430 € 17 Available Walrus tusk Walrus tusk is a northern material with a character all its own, distinct from both mammoth and elephant. Bone & ivory 170–420 € 16 Available Juma Juma is a modern, high-tech polymer material originally developed for premium knife handles. Composites 65–360 € 94 Available Water buffalo horn Water buffalo horn is one of the warmest and most pleasant materials for worry beads, and entirely untroubled ethically: the domestic water buffalo… Horn 125–300 € 18 Available Soviet ebonite (USSR) Soviet ebonite is vulcanized hard rubber, saturated with sulfur and aged for decades. Ebonite 40–275 € 133 Available Aramith bowling ball Aramith bowling-ball worry beads are a rare variant made from Aramith's signature phenolic resin, turned not from billiard balls but from the large… Billiard balls 70–275 € 70 Available Hippopotamus tusk Hippopotamus tusk is one of the most underrated materials in the world of worry beads, and among the hardest of all tooth materials. Bone & ivory 180–250 € 4 Rare Textolite Textolite is a laminated plastic of cotton fabric impregnated with phenolic or epoxy resin and pressed under pressure; it is essentially the "indus… Composites 100–230 € 10 Rare Titanium Titanium is a light, exceptionally strong, corrosion-resistant metal prized in worry beads for its unique blend of noble weight and durability. Metal 230 € 1 Very rare German colored ebonite German colored ebonite (often marked SEM / SEM Hartgummi) is a modern, premium-grade hard rubber that, unlike classic black ebonite, comes in a ric… Ebonite 77–220 € 104 Available Wood Wood is the oldest and most "human" material for worry beads: warm, light, breathing, accompanying prayer, reflection, and simply the habit of hold… Wood 35–215 € 10 Rare Whale bone Whale bone is a material of a different nature than sperm whale tooth: not dense dentine but true bone tissue, lighter, more porous in structure, a… Bone & ivory 160–210 € 3 Very rare Grenadill wood Grenadill (African blackwood, Dalbergia melanoxylon) is one of the densest and most valuable woods on the planet, the traditional material for oboe… Wood 105–200 € 16 Available Other materials Прочие и смешанные материалы. Wood 15–200 € 51 Available Aramith billiard ball Aramith billiard-ball worry beads are made from top-grade phenolic resin — the very material from which the Belgian company Aramith makes professio… Billiard balls 65–185 € 132 Available Stabilized wood Stabilized wood is natural timber (often with beautiful but soft or burl figure) that is impregnated under vacuum and pressure with a liquid polyme… Wood 105–180 € 7 Rare Cow bone Cow bone is an honest, accessible, and deeply traditional material for worry beads, free of any legal complication: it is a by-product of the food… Bone & ivory 35–170 € 3 Very rare Samurai billiard ball Samurai billiard-ball worry beads are made from dense phenolic resin, turned from Samurai-brand billiard balls, known among pool enthusiasts as a r… Billiard balls 85–170 € 26 Available Elforyn Elforyn is a modern high-quality bone imitation, and honesty here is part of the material's virtue: it is not natural ivory but an engineered compo… Bone & ivory 135–160 € 3 Very rare Micarta Micarta is a composite of layered fabric (cotton, linen, paper, sometimes jute or denim) impregnated with thermosetting resin and pressed under hig… Composites 85–150 € 27 Available Argali horn Argali horn is a rare mountain material from the largest wild sheep of Central Asia, whose mighty spiralling horns have long been prized by hunters… Horn 135 € 1 Very rare Pink Ivory wood Pink Ivory wood is one of the most valuable timbers in the world and, despite its name, has nothing to do with ivory: it is a dense African hardwoo… Wood 135 € 1 Very rare Mapana wood Mapana is a rare African wood with an especially expressive, "fiery" figure: warm honey-gold and brown tones are interwoven with contrasting dark g… Wood 130 € 1 Very rare