Love beads, that's in a name?
Looking for “love bead” on the world wide web can bring up some unexpected results. I thought love beads were small multi colored beads strung together in a long necklace with a decided Bohemian edge-like you picked the beads up while traveling around the world one bead at a time, but some sources offer other explanations…
I think the really appealing thing about love beads is their sense of having traveled, maybe this is how they gathered all that love associated with them? From old world markets to new world streets of San Francisco these beads have been around the block a few times.
History has other names for them including trade beads, they traveled the world from India to the whole globe. They saw love and hate, good and bad. Love beads is still a good name for them. The rebirth of love beads was thanks to their adopted parents-hippies, who washed them in the water of innocence and youth.