8mm Lapis Bead Strand

Midnight-blue beads, polished smooth and strung with a matching cord.

This is a strand of 8mm lapis beads. Lapis lazuli is a deep blue rock, rich in the mineral lazurite, that has been mined in northeastern Afghanistan for thousands of years and traded across the ancient world. Loop of deep navy spheres with a glossy, nearly seamless finish and the faintest hint of speckling. A blue cord passes through every bead and extends in long, curling tails.

A night sky, minus the effort of looking up at it.