Beads, beads and more beads

Jun 14, 2009 12:56

This is mainly for 87_degrees, but there may well be other people who're curious about my bead collection.

Warning, the images under here are VERY big. For smaller piccies go here and here.





Tray top left
Row 1: Tiger’s eye (4mm), red tiger’s eye, black onyx, mother of pearl, lilac glass.
Row 2: Garnet, aventurine, denim lapis, rose quartz, purple dyed fossils, mother of pearl.
Row 3: Goldstone (copper suspended in glass), amazonite, mother of pearl, heamatite, garnet, snowflake obsidian.

Tray top right
Row 1: Magnetic haematite, more magnetic haematite, and some more magnetic haematite, 8mm red tiger’s eye, iridescent purple glass, more iridescent purple glass.
Row 2: Pale lilac glass, amethyst, goldstone and some more magnetic haematite, 8mm tiger’s eye, tiger’s eye chips, more tiger’s eye chips.
Row 3: Glass cat’s eye beads, malachite, garnet, amethyst points with yet more mother of pearl, fluorite points, glass teardrops and rose quartz, natural moonstone chips.

Tray lower left
Row 1: Amethyst, garnet, rose quartz, moonstone and garnet set in sterling silver, white lace agate, white lace agate, peridot.
Row 2: Mother of pearl, turquoise candy jade, green moss agate, freshwater pearls and dyed purple freshwater pearls, aventurine and I’m pretty sure the little red beads are a kind of jasper, tiger’s eye.
Row 3: Matt rose quartz, shiny rose quartz, mother of pearl disks and freshwater pearls, purple dyed fossils, haematite, more haematite.

Tray bottom right:

Row 1: Sky quartz and black glass beads, haematite, two odd earrings and a few utterly tiny blue goldstone beads, rose quartz, amethyst, red malachite.
Row 2: Fluorite, misc, blue goldstone, fluorite, blue goldstone, jade.
Row 3: Flourite, picture jaspar, haematite, misc semi-precious misc semi precious with silver ball flowers, black lace agate.



Tray top left:

Row 1: Amethyst, random stuff, random stuff, tourmaline with random stuff (tourmaline is the bright blue), malachite chips and fluorite points, garnet.
Row 2: sterling silver, more silver, silver crimps, peach quartz (I think, might not be), carnelian, citrine.
Row 3: Silver, more silver, findings, peridot and findings, blue glass and findings, amethyst.

Tray top right:

Row 1: All glass
Row 2: Carnelian, glass, more glass, rose quartz, peridot and a big blue glass bead, glass.
Row 3: Mixed semi-precious (mainly agate and smoky quartz), platic and glass, wood and a few more haematite for good measure, misc, misc, glass.

Tray bottom left:

Row 1: nowt, rose quartz pendants, clasps, various quartz points, dyed quartz Migo brain canisters.
Row 2: Thread, clasps, crimps, mics points, more Migo brain canisters.
Row 3: Random crap, fluorite drops (not amethyst, note the green in some of them), fluorite points, mics points, tigers eye pendants.

Tray bottom right:

Row 3: Red tiger’s eye fan, haematitie fan.
Row 4: Lapis lazuli (yep, the real thing, not very high grade but nice nonetheless), and more of the same but with silver findings on top.

The vast majority are semi-precious.

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