7mm Round Handmade Olive Wood Beads from Bethlehem and Nazareth

This olive wood beads is handcrafted by skilled Christian artisans in Bethlehem. Made from genuine olive wood, each piece is unique with natural grain patterns. Size: 7mm. Ships worldwide with free US shipping on orders over $100.

About This Beads

Pick up a handful of these and you'll feel the difference right away. Smooth, warm, a little weight to them. Each one is 7mm round, shaped and polished by hand from genuine olive wood harvested around Bethlehem and Nazareth.

These aren't uniform factory beads. The grain shifts from piece to piece, some lighter, some with darker streaks running through. That's the wood talking. People use them for rosary beads for sale orders, Anglican prayer beads for sale, custom bracelets, chaplets, church craft projects. We sell them by the 60 for small personal projects and by the 1000 for bulk rosary-making supplies.

If you're looking for beads order online that actually come from the place you're praying about, these are it. Olive wood beads Nazareth for sale, sourced from the trees themselves. Not a catalog product. The real thing.

Features & Details

• ✓ Genuine Holy Land olive wood, hand-polished in Bethlehem
• ✓ 7mm round, measured hole to hole. Natural variation of 0.5 to 1mm
• ✓ About 15 grams per set of 60 beads
• ✓ Light natural sealer finish, brings out the grain
• ✓ Available in 60, 500, or 1000 beads per order
• ✓ Works for rosary beads, worry beads, mala beads, prayer beads, bracelets
• ✓ Fair trade, sourced directly from artisan families, no middlemen
• ✓ Wood from pruned branches, no trees cut down

Product Specifications

Perfect As a Gift

A church supply coordinator in Ohio emailed us last year. She'd ordered 500 beads for a rosary-making workshop and said half her group ended up making a second set to keep for themselves. That's a beads gift idea that kind of runs away with you.

These work as a beads baptism gift for a new family, a beads confirmation gift for a teenager, or a beads easter gift for someone in your faith community. People getting married have included them in wedding favor bags too, a beads wedding gift that actually means something. And at Christmas, a set of authentic mala beads or Roman Catholic rosary beads from the Holy Land lands differently than something off a shelf.

Buying in bulk? The 500 and 1000 bead packs are priced for churches and ministries. Free US shipping on orders over $100, and we ship worldwide from Bethlehem.

The Story Behind It

Most wooden colorful beads you find online come from a factory somewhere with no particular connection to the wood or the place. Ours don't. These come from families in Bethlehem who've been working olive wood for three generations, shaping and polishing by hand the same way their grandparents did.

The wood itself is from annual pruning of living trees near Bethlehem and Nazareth. Nobody cuts a tree down to make a bead. The branches get pruned anyway, and the wood that would otherwise be burned or left to rot gets turned into something like this instead. I find that worth mentioning, at least to me it matters.

Your order goes directly to keeping those families working. No importers, no middlemen. We buy from them, pack here in Bethlehem, and ship to you. That's the whole chain.

Care Instructions

Olive wood's low maintenance. If the beads start looking a little dry after a while, rub a small drop of olive oil in with a cloth and they'll come right back. Don't soak them in water. That's really about it.