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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 point of this necklace is a dark green eye-catching set of 11 trapezoid Rhyolite bars from India.
- 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.
- Three different types of agate are part of this necklace: multi-coloured Agate (grey rectangle), Canadian smooth green Agate rectangles and dragon Agate (dark green balls) from Brazil.
- Sterling silver plated and Tibetan silver beads sourced from South Korea.
- 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.
- 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.
- Stick Biwa 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.
- Tiny green raw Emerald gemstones from India.
- Picasso and Oceanic Jasper (creamy- brown balls) from India. 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.
- Carved circular bone bead from Indonesia.
- Sterling silver plated and Tibetan silver beads sourced from South Korea.
