Agate, Dzi And Chevron Czech Glass Beads Bracelets: Large Agate w/Bayong Wood
Each bracelet is uniquely made by hand with various stones and glass beads! *Information about some of the beads
The Bayong Wood With Abalone Inlay And Large Agate Bracelet is made with sturdy elastic (Note: Don't overstretch it - just like a rubber band, it too may break). The bracelet has silver-plated tube-shaped textured beads between each wooded bead.
*Bayong Wood is a brown hardwood native to the Philippines, and comes from the majestic Bayong Tree. This grounding hardwood symbolizes development, evolution, adaptation, and spiritual growth. Sacred to the making of traditional malas, Bayong Wood compliments the properties of the gemstones it's paired with.
*Abalone is a gastropod mollusk that lives in coastal saltwater.
*Agate is a banded form of finely-grained, microcrystalline Quartz. The lovely color patterns and banding make this translucent gemstone very unique. Agates can have many distinctive styles and patterns, but each Agate is unique in its own habit, with no two Agates being the same.
The Large Dzi Agate And Flat Oval Agate Beaded Bracelet is made of sturdy elastic (see Note above). In between each flat, oval agate bead are smaller flat, rounded agate beads. The width is 6 3/4".
*Dzi bead is a type of stone bead. In several Central Asian cultures, the bead is considered to provide positive spiritual benefit. *See Agate above.
The Glass Chevron And Copper Beaded Bracelet is made with a sturdy elastic. (Note: see above) The width is 7 3/4". It has four oval shaped copper beads and various shapes and sizes of glass Chevron beads.
*Chevron beads are special glass beads; the first specimens of this type were created by glass bead makers in Venice and Murano, Italy, toward the end of the 14th century. They may also be referred to as rosetta, or star beads.
The Czech Glass, Lamp Work And Melon Shaped Beaded Bracelet is made with a sturdy elastic. (Note: above). The width is 7 3/4". It has four yellow Czech glass beads, three Lamp Work beads, six melon-shaped beads and various shapes and sizes of clay beads with three silver-plated odd shaped fillers.
*Czech glass beads are made from pressed, fire-polished glass.
*Lamp Work is the term used for making beads and other shapes from melting and forming glass in a flame.