Adjustable cord necklace with small carved stone

A small carved stone (cross, angel, turtle, mushroom, heart, drop…) hanging from an adjustable cord with a sliding knot, decorated with beads. A discreet piece of jewellery that can be worn short or long.

Appearance may vary from piece to piece (shade, transparency, patterns).

Choose from the options above:

• Black agate cross: Black chalcedony. Commercially sold black agate is almost always dyed: the stone is natural, its colour generally is not.
• Amethyst cross: pale lilac; a purple variety of quartz, coloured by traces of iron.
• Opalite (glass) angel: Man-made glass, milky, with a bluish shimmer, sold under the name opalite: it is not a natural stone.
• Jade turtle: “Jade” is a trade name; it may be jadeite, nephrite or another green stone.
• Sodalite mushroom: A deep blue silicate, often veined with white calcite.
• Red jade clover: An orange stone sold under the name “red jade”: a trade name. The shade may be obtained by heating or dyeing.
• Rose quartz heart: Rose quartz whose colour comes from traces of titanium, iron or manganese.
• Dyed howlite drop: Naturally white calcium borate, here dyed blue-green in the style of turquoise: the stone is natural, its colour is not.
• Goldstone (glass) bone: Manufactured glass containing fine sparkling copper particles (also called “artificial sunstone”): it is not a natural stone.
• Silver obsidian Buddha: Natural black volcanic glass, with silvery reflections (“silver sheen”).

About the material

Carved and polished stone (see the choice above), cotton cord with beads and a sliding knot; adjustable length. The stones measure 2.5 to 3 cm. Good to know about the stones: “goldstone” is a manufactured glass; so is “opalite”; howlite is dyed blue-green; black agate is dyed; the green stone “jade” and the orange stone “red jade” are trade names.

This is costume jewellery: it is not made of gold or solid silver, nor set with fine-jewellery gems.