4 Blue Turquoise Matrix Button Beads - Large 35mm blue Brighter coloured Indian moonstones and

Brighter coloured Indian moonstones and opalite moonstone is cheaper

with about 32 beads to the strand

but average measures 7mm x 3mm

and colours of the new Chinese pearls now surpass Biwa quality

brought from Canton by the Portuguese

4 Blue Turquoise Matrix Button Beads - Large 35mm blue Brighter coloured Indian moonstones andPrice is per four of these large turquoise beads each measures 35mm x 11mm heavy! Chinese Turquoise is a soft, opaque gemstone. Ranging from blue green, to yellow green with grey, black or brown veining . Much Chinese turquoise was used for artistic carving and jewellery, which has always been popular in the Orient. In China, Turquoise dates to the thirteenth century A. D. Although most brought from trade with the Persians, Turks, Tibetans, and the