{"product_id":"alashan-agate-bracelet-semiprecious-15mm-alashan-agates-hand-knotted-with-durable-stainless-steel-components-big-bold-and-beautiful","title":"Alashan agate bracelet. Semiprecious 15mm Alashan agates, hand knotted with durable stainless steel components! Big, bold and beautiful!","description":"\u003cp\u003eNOTE: The 6.75” bracelet has dusky rose knots and the 7” has mauve knots. I can make either of them up to approximately 3\/4” longer by adding two jump rings, so if you’d like one but need it longer, message me and it shall be done!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNOTICE: These are GENUINE gemstones! In addition to using genuine gemstones, I also use durable components that will outlast every elastic bracelet on the market. Elastic bracelets will wear out quickly and break, whereas my bracelets will give you years of wear!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere I offer two absolutely STELLAR semiprecious Alashan agate bracelets with bold 14mm beads! These are among the rare bracelets that tempt me to be greedy and keep them for myself! Alashan agate is not readily available because it ONLY occurs in a small region of the Gobi desert, which is the Alxa League of Inner Mongolia in China (which is why this semiprecious gemstone is sometimes called “Alxa agate”).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe seams, “cracks” and colors in these beads are 100% natural and make them extra valuable because patterns and colors like these are HIGHLY sought after (and no worries! This agate ranks at a hearty 7 out of 10 on the Mohs scale for mineral hardness so it won’t crack)! Added to that, it’s labor-intensive to even get to the mines in such a remote location, and once there the laborers mine these gemstones by hand! Envision traveling for miles upon MILES under a scorching sun through a shifting sea of sand, then laboring to dig with a plastic shovel for a stone while sand flows relentlessly back into the hole - all with hot winds whipping sharp grains of silica into your face and eyes and cutting your exposed skin like a thousand tiny razor blades! That’s the “picture” of mining for this semiprecious agate! All these factors make mining these gemstones a costly endeavor, and their relative unavailability drives their price even higher!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd that’s why these two bracelets have big price tags, but even still I’m offering them at a price lower than you’ll find for a bracelet with beads of equivalent high quality and large size! Yes, it’s an opportunity to price-gouge but that’s just not what “drives” me! What DOES drive me is hunting down good buying opportunities so I can share my passion for gemstone beads with others and give you, my customer, fair opportunities to own some truly awesome pieces of jewelry!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTHESE, ladies and gentlemen, are just such awesome pieces! If you can “swing” buying one of these large, bold beauties…well, I’m not going to tell you that you should buy one (but you should buy one! 😏)!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hand Knotted Jewelry","offers":[{"title":"6.75”","offer_id":53982769217720,"sku":null,"price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"7”","offer_id":53982769250488,"sku":null,"price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/1527\/4424\/files\/D8814B9E-FE0A-40B7-BE6F-5A01BCD0F4BA.jpg?v=1787696359","url":"https:\/\/handknottedjewelry.com\/products\/alashan-agate-bracelet-semiprecious-15mm-alashan-agates-hand-knotted-with-durable-stainless-steel-components-big-bold-and-beautiful","provider":"Hand Knotted Jewelry","version":"1.0","type":"link"}