Zulu Love Letter - African Bead Work
Zulu Love Letters are African Beaded Messages given by the 
Zulu Maidens to their lovers as symbols of their love and
affection - each color conveys a different meaning:
WHITE: symbol of hope, purity, cleanliness and true love.
BLACK: grief, loneliness, my heart has turned as black as the
rafters in the hut as I hear you have another maiden.
YELLOW: wealth (or lack of) if we marry I will be hungry as
you own no bull to slaughter.
GREEN: love sickness, jealousy, I have become as thin as a
blade of grass from pining for you.
BLUE: faithfulness, if I were a dove I would fly through blue
skies to reach you.
TURQUOISE: impatience, I am losing hope that you will 
marry me.
RED: intense love, longing, my heart bleeds with love for you.
PINK: abject poverty, if you keep on gambling and wasting
money, you will never save enough for my Lobola (dowry
paid in cattle).
BROWN: my love is like the earth that gives rise to new life.
STRIPED BEADS: doubt, accusations, two timing. You are like
the Ntothoviyane (striped grass hopper) springing from bush
to bush.
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