Brecciated Red Jasper Button Beads - Large 13mmPrice is per 16 inch string of these beautiful beads. Jasper brings contentment. Bead size: 13mm x 6mm about 24 beads to the string. Beautifully polished. Jasper is a crystalline variety of quartz that contains up to 20% foreign material. This is what determines the stones 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

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popular in 18th-century Russia where it was used extensively to decorate the Russian court

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Tiger's-eye is polished to show its characteristic band of pearly luminescence

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silvery-white

This beautiful bracelet is crafted from 12mm to 8mm Chinese agate

Collecting agate bowls became common among European royalty during the Renaissance and many museums in Europe

quartz has more colours and forms than any other stone because of this very abundance

it is delicate