4x7mm White Luster Rondelle Beads [100] (see Defects)

Beads per lot:

100

Cost per bead:

2.7 cents

Bead material:

Glass

Country of origin:

India

Size/shape:

Rondelles (flying-saucer-shaped beads), 6mm to 7mm wide and 3mm to 4mm thick.

Colors/description:

Opaque white with a luster coating (the coating is hard to see in the picture).

Hole size:

1mm to 2mm (estimated).

Defects:

5% to 10% of the beads are malformed, so I dropped the price from $2.00 to $1.80.  These are Indian beads, so they are not uniform from one to the next.

How photographed:

At the window in natural daylight.

Comments:

These are Indian beads and are definitely on the rustic side.  They are not the same shape from one bead to the next.  I haven't done much jewelry-designing in recent years, but it seems to me that they should be used only in informal jewelry.  For some reason, this particular color has a higher percentage of defects than the other colors.