Red Agate Onyx Hand Knotted 8mm Bead Necklace with Large Flame Baroque Pearl Pendant 4 Inches SF chain overall length 22", 4 bead Earrings.

Custom Basket Charms with Gemstone Chips of choice available with Bead Necklace purchase.

The beads are knotted with silk. Agate beads that are classified as Red but are a bright pink. The beads are 16 inches with an additional SF chain of 4 inches. The spring clasp can be attached at beads on one side making a choker. Beads are round and are 8mm wide. Beads can attach charms, pendants and other decoration and make a nice addition to your chain layers.

Agate is a type of quartz that also comes from the Chalcedony group. It is one of the few gemstones that have many colors, shades, patterns, and meanings. The color bands that Agate has come from absorbing various mineral deposits for a long time. These patterns depend on the environmental influences around them.Baroque pearls is an umbrella term, that covers a range of pearl shapes. Simply put, baroque pearls are pearls that aren’t regular or symmetrical in shape and can come in a variety of shapes that range from flat, round disks to bumpy non-symmetrical sphe

This is in contrast to the traditional view of what pearls should be – perfectly round, smooth and lustrous. Since pearl cultivation began commercially, in the 1900s, baroque pearls were seen as inferior but today that’s changed.

Baroque Pearls are formed in saltwater oysters and freshwater mollusks due to the deposition of the nacre. The time of deposition and uneven distribution of the nacre leads to an altered shape. In comparison, the color of the pearl is due to its host mollusk and the surrounding environment.

With grooves and dips on their surface, Baroque pearls reflect light differently and hence glow differently in different angles. Such a gleaming appearance makes these pearls even more striking.