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Cost per bead:

10.4 cents

Bead material:

Glass

Country of origin:

Czech Republic

Size/shape:

8mm round, faceted.

Colors/description:

Clear glass with loose stripes of opaque grayish amethyst.

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:

Getting these beads was a mistake.  I reordered the F006 beads, which are clear with a cloud of amethyst in them, and what I got were these.  Since it costs money to mail beads back, and since several people had requested the F006 beads, I decided to keep them.  The color of the opaque amethyst is the same as the F006 beads, but there are not that many stripes in the beads, and the overall effect is less colorful.

Two of my suppliers carry these beads, and I had already gotten them from the other supplier.  But the beads from that supplier had such an anemic color that I had to return them.