A friend of mine sent me a storage chest that she got from a yard
sale...it was filled with plastic beads, sequins, and a bunch of other
'odds and ends,
QUESTION:A friend of mine sent me a storage chest that she got from a yard
sale...it was filled with plastic beads, sequins, and a bunch of other
'odds and ends,' including some beads that I can't tell what they're
made of. Some of them are green and others are white with gray lines in
them, kind of like the 'design' in tourquoise. They don't feel like
plastic, they feel more like polished rock chips, but don't know for
sure what they are.
ANSWER: The beads which are white with grey matrix are probably the natural form of
Howlite, which is often dyed and passed off as Lapis or Turquoise, depending on
the color. The white w/grey is Howlite's natural color.
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