Red Jasper Crystal Bracelet Bead Size:8 mm the Indian basil) in the

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Polished into discs

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Red Jasper Crystal Bracelet Bead Size:8 mm the Indian basil) in theRed jasper an opaque brick red chalcedony coloured through by iron, carved into seals and amulets since the earliest civilisations. Earthy and solid, with the weight of fired clay. From India, strung on elastic cord. It is the opaque cousin of carnelian the same iron coloured chalcedony, but so densely included that no light passes, reading as deep, even terracotta sometimes crossed by darker veining. Its name descends through Latin and Greek from