This 17.5" necklace is made of natural Job's Tears seeds and an array of white and light pink baroque Chinese fresh water pearls. The clasp is gld fill.
These seeds are my favorite to work with. They are light weight and their soft colors work so sweetly with pearls. This necklace weighs only 36 grams!
from WikiPedia: "The hard, white grains of Job's tears have historically been used as beads to make necklaces and other objects. The seeds are naturally bored with holes without the need to artificially puncture them.[18]
Strands of Job's tears are used as Buddhist prayer beads in parts of India, Myanmar, Laos, Taiwan, and Korea according to Japanese researcher Yukino Ochiai who has specialized on the ethnobotanic usage of the plant.[34] They are also made into rosaries in countries such as the Philippines and Bolivia.[34]"
