Hematite, 4mm Round on 16-inch strands
SKU: GMS-260
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Description
- Hematite round beads 4mm on a 16-inch strands
- Hematite's shine can give a subtler (and less expensive) sparkle than silver to your jewelry, but stick to smaller sizes because larger ones get quite heavy.
- It's popular for men's jewelry
- When polished this stone was used as an early mirror, but when cut very thin it shows up as red, hence the origin of the name, Greek for blood.
- Although know since Babylonian times, Hematite was only popular during the Middle Ages, and later during the Victorian Age as mourning jewelry.
- Today it's made into highly polished beads in a variety of shapes and sometimes also magnetized.