Champagne Biwa Pearls - 6mmPrice is per 15 inch string of these beautiful 6mm pearls. The least expensive cultured pearls today rival the most expensive natural pearls ever found. Natural freshwater pearls occur in mussels for the same reason saltwater pearls occur in oysters. Foreign material inside a mussel can't be expelled. To reduce irritation, the mollusk coats the intruder with the same secretion it uses for shell building, nacre. To cultivate a pearl, farmers slit the

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Price is per 16-inch string of these unusual nugget beads - ready for stringing

The best jade has a waxy

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Colored purple-to-lilac

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Jasper is known as the "Patron stone of counsellors and healers"

Another interpretation of this prayer is 'om mani padme hum'

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Average largest bead measures about 20mm x 13mm x 13mm

Picture shows full-view and close-up of the little Buddha pendant