Rhodonite Tablet Beads

Rhodonite Tablet Beads

These multi-hued Rhodonite tablet beads with smooth rounded edges will add a fascinating new aspect to any stringing or jewellery-making project.

What makes these Rhodonite tablet beads so compelling is their sheer unpredictability. The base colour is a deep, polished black, but running through each bead are veins, swirls, and washes of colour, pale grey, dusky purple, soft pink, and occasional flashes of blue that give every single bead a completely unique character, like a miniature abstract painting sealed beneath a high-gloss surface.

Rhodonite is a manganese silicate mineral, and it is this complex mineral composition that produces the extraordinary colour variation you see here. The large 20 x 15mm tablet shape and highly polished finish allow the full pattern of each bead to be appreciated, making them as much a conversation piece as a jewellery-making material. For a maker looking for something genuinely different, these are difficult to walk past.

• Shape: Tablet (rounded edges)
• Size: 20mm x 15mm (approx, size may vary)
• Colour:  Various over black and grey
• Lustre: Highly polished
• Drilling: Through drilled length-ways, 0.8mm size drill
• Quantity: 1 String (unfinished) approx. 17 beads (average) / 15.5 inches (unknotted length)

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Sku: PDLB20019

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