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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 spines of a Slate Pencil Sea Urchin, which we purchased on a small market in Madang Province in Papua New Guinea. Whilst almost all sea Urchins have long sharp and venomous spines this species has in changed tactics to produce thick blunt spines.
- 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.
- Fossilized Crinoids – early stalked relatives of feather stars, sometimes called water lilies, that lived in the world’s ocean since the Ordovician period 490 million years ago. Because their stalk is made from calcareous material and the ocean sediment is an ideal environment for Crinoids to become fossilized, every circle on the grey coloured bead represents a perfect cross-section through one animal. These beads were sourced in Hong Kong.
- One small raw Emerald gemstone from India.
- Three different types of agate are part of this necklace: Calcified Agate (black and white and crab fire Agate (brownish tube) and dragon Agate (dark green balls) from Brazil.
- Three types of jasper: Dalmatian Jasper from India (spotted rectangles) and rainforest Jasper (oval) from Uruguay. Large green rectangular very smooth Jasper from Canada. Jasper, which belongs to the Quartz family is one of the oldest known gemstones, and was very popular in ancient times. It has been written about in very early Greek, Hebrew, Assyrian, Persian and Latin publications, as well as the Bible.
- Sterling silver plated and Tibetan silver beads sourced from South Korea.
