Large Australian Desert Picture Jasper Bean BeadsPrice is per 16 inch string of these beautiful 15mm x 10mm x 4mm Australian beads. Jasper is a crystalline variety of quartz that contains up to 20% foreign material. This is what determines the stone's multicolour, striped, or spotted appearance. Jasper was highly valued in ancient times, not only for its beauty, but also for the reputed magical and medicinal properties. In France jasper ornaments date back two millennia, Babylonians used in for

This is a synthetic stone with even more blue shimmer than genuine moonstone

unusual beads are made from real pearl

Turquoise dates to the thirteenth century A

and help stomach upsets

The inner heat enhances sensations and stimulates creativity

and is now rare

like most today - is ambroid amber

white or black

Hawks-eye has a blue radiance

Each one of these beautiful pearls measures about 4mm x 3mm x 3mm

Making it easier to find direction and feel in control of your life

one side of the eye will be milky white and the other remains coloured