Price is for 15 1/2-inch string of these striking beads. Each tube measures 12mm x 4mm - about 30 beads to the strand.
What is agate? Jasper is a crystalline variety of quartz that contains up to 20% foreign material. This is what determines the stone's multicolour, striped, or spotted appearance. Jasper was highly valued in ancient times, not only for its beauty, but also for the reputed magical and medicinal properties. In France jasper ornaments date back two-millennia, Babylonians used in for seals twelve-hundred years ago, and in India it has been used for jewellery and building for centuries.
Jasper is known as the "Patron stone of counsellors and healers". Being very healing and balancing, it was used for many different medications - like grinding into a powder to treat gall bladder and kidney disease. Ancient people used jasper to relieve pain, especially childbirth. Jasper is reported to sooth the nerves and to treat the kidneys, spleen, bladder, liver and stomach.
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