8mm Turquoise Bead Strand

Looped and tidy, with brown-flecked beads in shades from sea to leaf green.

This is a strand of 8mm turquoise beads. Turquoise is a blue to green mineral containing copper and aluminum, valued for beads and ornaments in Egypt, Persia, Tibet and the American Southwest for thousands of years. Round beads in a soft blue-green, each with dark brown veins and blotches. They lie in neat, overlapping loops on a pale blue cord, with a couple of loose strands at the ends.

Mottled like river pebbles and strung with real care.