Sleek Red and Black Sardonyx Banded Agate Barrel Beads - 14mm x 10mm graduated stone Tibet had it's own source

Tibet had it's own source of turquoise usually a green cast

Each measures a large 20mm x 5mm - about 20 donuts to the string

Each nugget measures 8mm x 6mm x 4mm - about 50 to the string

mass-production today makes them affordable

Price is for 16 inch string of these 14mm beads

Sleek Red and Black Sardonyx Banded Agate Barrel Beads - 14mm x 10mm graduated stone Tibet had it's own sourcePrice is for 15 inch string of this beautiful highly polish and fine finish beads. Each measures 14mm x 10mm about 27 beads in a string. Agate is one of the most common bead beaders use because it is readily available in an abundance of styles and shapes. What is agate? Agate is a variety of micro crystalline quartz that forms in layers and many colours and texture, by filling a cavity in a host rock although it is usually in round nodules with bands