8mm Desert Jasper Bead Strand

Sandy round beads, marked like old maps, coiled around themselves.

This is a 8mm desert jasper bead strand. It is desert jasper. Beads are among the oldest forms of personal ornament, and a strand is as much about the arrangement as the individual beads. Round beads with a smooth, matte-polished finish in tan, cream and grey-brown, patterned with fine veining and dark specks. A few are darker and more banded. The strand is coiled loosely, with a loose bead at one end.

Every bead a different landscape, none of them in a hurry.