Wholesale Lot 1/2 lb. of Genuine Turquoise Chips. 5702-TC
This Wholesale Lot features 1/2 a pound of blue and green Nevada Turquoise chips. Each stone features its own natural blue, green, and earth tone hues. This mix of stabilized Turquoise is perfect for creating unique hand made jewelry. This material is great for making chip inlay jewelry, fetish pottery, or turquoise mosaics. It's a hobby horse's dream. This is like a blank canvas. The possibilities are endless, let your imagination run wild! You will be getting 1/2 pound from the Turquoise pictured below. Size and color vary within a wondrous spectrum of shapes and colors. On average the chips are 5mm wide in one direction, and can be as long as 10mm or 1cm (3/8 of an inch) or occasionally as small as 2mm with varying thicknesses and profiles.
There are many legends about Turquoise; The Pima consider it to bring good fortune and strength and that it helped overcome illness. The Zuni believe that blue turquoise was male and of the sky and green turquoise was female and of the earth. Pueblo Indians thought that its color was stolen from the sky. In Hopi legend the lizard who travels between the above and the below, excretes turquoise and that the stone can hold back floods. The Apache felt that turquoise on a gun or bow made it shoot straight. The Navajo consider it as good fortune to wear and believe it could appease the Wind Spirit. |