Extremely beautiful and excellent quality hand cut faceted ovals in the most wonderful shades of natural Hessonite Garnet. Beads measure around 10x7mm approximately on a 15" strand.

There are many different types of garnet with similar physical properties and crystal forms, but they differ in chemical composition. The different types referred to as species include almandine, spessartine and grossular (varieties of which are hessonite and tsavorite) amongst others.