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Style no.:

F427

Bead material:

Glass

Country of origin:

Czech Republic

Size/shape:

8mm round, faceted.

Colors/description:

A mixture of colors:  translucent ruby red, light amethyst, light topaz, light olive, medium olive, teal, light blue, and possibly other colors.

Hole size:

1mm (estimated).

Defects:

I haven't noticed any significant defects.  However, fire-polished beads always have some imperfect facets.  To read about the fire-polishing process, click here.

How photographed:

At the window in natural daylight.

Comments:

The tourmaline gemstone comes in a variety of colors, and this mix of glass beads is meant to imitate those colors.  I searched for pictures of tourmalines on the internet, and it seems that this mix approximates those colors pretty well.  When I received these beads, I was surprised that the different hanks had different mixes of colors in them.  So I mixed all the beads together so everyone would get a the same mix (although I can't guarantee that the proportions will be uniform from one lot to the next).  Since the picture shows just one of those hanks, you will not get the exact mix shown in the picture.