Peacock Black Gold Top-Drilled Rice Pearls - 6 x 4mmPrice is per 15 inch string of these beautiful top drilled pearls. Colour is an attractive peacock black with slight tinges of gold and green over turn. Each bead measures 6mm x 4mm, but because top drill there are more than usual to a strand about 96 pearls to each string. 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

and is always a child's first important amulet

Price is for per 16-inch string of these unusual Chinese new jade tube beads that look like bamboo

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This is what determines the stone's multicolour

There are many types of jade in China - the most famous is exquisitely coloured transparent jadeite from Burma

Pearls have always been popular a classic that never go out of style

Colour is an attractive peacock black with slight tinges of gold and green over turn

until the 1990's when China revolutionize pearling

This necklace measures 15-inches in all

No wonder it's so fashionable in the 21st century

As well as quenching thirst and preventing fevers

They are also ideal for hair accessories