55 Striking Icicle Mother-of-Pearl Bead String - Salmon Pink or Mauve

Product Code: nor697

Availability:In stock

£4.99

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Price is per string of these beads.

Salmon pink is 13 inch long  and about 55 beads in a string. The beads measures from 37mm - 15mm  x 7mm x 6mm.

Mauve icicles is 14 inch long and about 72 beads in a string. The beads measures from 32 mm- 18mm x 7mm x 4mm.

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These beautiful, unusual beads are made from real Chinese mother-of-pearl. Shining silver and brown with very long icicles. Price is per 15-inch strand. Each icicle measures almost 1 1/2 inch long x 6mm.

The shining, playful, and reflected light of mother of pearl has attracted the attention of human beings since the beginning of the world. Societies, tribes, and nations have all added the technology of their day to their experience, knowledge, and understanding, and they have turned mother of pearl from one form into another.

Though mother of pearl is quite widespread around the world, its assumption of the aspect of a magnificent branch of the arts after a past of many centuries began when it came into the hands of the Ottoman Turks. (nâ´ker) or nacre , the iridescent substance that forms the lining of the shells of fresh-water and some salt-water mollusks. Like the pearl it is a secretion of the mantle, composed of alternate layers of calcium carbonate and conchiolin. Among the chief sources are the pearl oyster, found in warm and tropical seas.