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Cost per bead:

7.6 cents

Bead material:

Glass

Country of origin:

Czech Republic

Size/shape:

8mm round (spherical).

Colors/description:

White glass beads with a dark blue synthetic coating and gold-colored speckles.  An occasional beads will be missing the coating right around one or both holes, but in most cases the bare area can be covered by an adjacent bead.

Hole size:

1mm (estimated).

Defects:

These beads are synthetically coated; I don't know how durable the coating will be.

How photographed:

At the window in natural daylight.

Comments:

These beads can look fairly bright in bright daylight, but very dark in artificial light.  The gold speckles are not very bright, and are hard to see in the picture.  The supplier calls these "lapis"; but since I use that term to describe another bead style, I decided not to use it.  Actually, these beads probably look a little closer to true lapis than the other beads.