What are gemstone beads?
Today’s definition means practically any type of stone that can be made into jewelry, most of which fall into the semi-precious category. The trend today is away from real gold or diamonds and towards relatively inexpensive, imaginative jewelry with maybe some retro style or a perhaps a new fresh look. Just about every gemstone can be recreated inexpensively in a lab and some are almost indistinguishable from the mined variety. This opens up jewelry-making to everyone who wants to try their hand at making a gemstone bracelet, necklace or anything imaginable. Some of our customers make head dresses, belts, rings and so on and we are sometimes awestruck with the talent and imagination put into the jewelry created by them. We all have enough artist, treasure-hunter or rock hound (or a combination of all three) in us to get a great deal of pleasure from this hobby or profession. Take jewelry grade DIAMONDS for example, where all but the best experts in the world (with specialized equipment
