Raw Unpolished Amber Chips – Pre-Drilled for DIY Viking Beadwork

Description

Unpolished Amber Chips / Beads with Drilled Holes. Make Your Own Unique Amber Viking Jewellery With Our Raw Amber Chips.

– All of our amber jewellery is handmade from solid pieces of genuine Baltic amber from Northern Europe.
– Baltic amber is made from 44 million year old fossilised tree resin that is found on the Baltic sea coast.
– It was often used by the Vikings for making Thor’s hammers and other jewellery.
– Amber was a valuable commodity and traded from the iron age onwards and was collected from the Baltic sea to be traded all over Europe by the Vikings.
– Genuine raw amber chips, varying in size from 5-12mm (0.2 – 0.4 inch)
Foraged by hand from the Baltic coast of Lithuania.

– Hole size 1mm, so will need to be slotted on a fine thread. IT WILL NOT SLOT ONTO A 1MM LEATHER THONG
– Now available in 4 package weights:

– 100g (3.5oz) – approx. 240 – 300 pieces.
– 50g (1.75oz) – approx 120 – 150 pieces.
– 20g (0.7oz) – approx 50 – 65 pieces.
– 10g (0.35oz) – approx 25 – 35 pieces.

PLEASE NOTE THAT EVERY BEAD IS DIFFERENT IN SIZE & SHAPE, SO THE ABOVE  ESTIMATES CAN BE DIFFERENT.

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