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Price: AU$ 287 (free worldwide shipping)
This necklace is, like all of our other pieces, a one-off design, intended for a woman that appreciates individuality and commitment to quality. The beads for this eclectic necklace have been collected all over the world and put together to create a piece of strong contrast. The piece contains, amongst others, these semi-precious beads:
- The focal points of this necklace are a red turquoise pendant – complemented with a large traditionally carved Cinnabar bead from China. Although the ore for Turquoise (stabilized and dyed red) comes from California, these beads have been sourced from China. Owing to a culture of thousands of years of bead making, some of the world’s best lapidaries are still found in China. Chemically speaking, these stunning beads are turquoise stone – minus the copper components – and as such they appear white, rather than bluish green. While the world knows and trades these stones as stabilized & dyed Turquoise, these semi-precious beads are technically speaking made from Howlite. Howlite is characterized by eye-catching contrasting charcoal veins, and because it is very porous, it takes up dye easily to look lustrous in its own right.
- Lava beads from Indonesia. Lava beads start life as molten rock of over 1,000 degrees Celsius Because of the air entrapped in the flowing lava these eye-catching beads are surprisingly light.
- Black Onyx semi-precious gemstone, silicate rich quartz crystals fused together by nature, from Turkey.
- Snowflake Obsidian from the US. The black mottled semi-precious stone is a naturally occurring volcanic glass, born when lava is rapidly cooled upon flowing into the ocean.
- Cracked faceted Agate from Brazil.
- Foraminifera discs– the calcareous remains of one of the largest single cell marine organism in the world bought on a small market in Porta Vila, Vanuatu.
- Resin bead from Australia.
- Pearls, produced by the freshwater triangle mussel (Hyriopsis cumingii) near Shanghai, China. The beads are produced by grafting tissue of foreign mussels into the triangle mussel, which responds to this intrusion of foreign protein by producing the lustrous nacre bead.
- Sterling silver plated and Tibetan silver beads sourced from South Korea.
