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Stone Cabochon - 15x20mm Rectangle Cabochon - Prehnite

Stone Cabochon - 15x20mm Rectangle Cabochon - Prehnite

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Misty translucent green with black inclusions. Interestingly - Prehnite was the first mineral to be named after a person, in the late 1700s, for Colonel Hendrik von Prehn, who was a command in the Dutch military forces, and stationed at the Cape of Good Hope. It is also known as Cape Chrysolite....
Size
15x20mm

Shape
Rectangle

Color
Green

Product Type
Cabochon

Material
Stone

Stone Type
Prehnite

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Misty translucent green with black inclusions. Interestingly - Prehnite was the first mineral to be named after a person, in the late 1700s, for Colonel Hendrik von Prehn, who was a command in the Dutch military forces, and stationed at the Cape of Good Hope. It is also known as Cape Chrysolite.

15mm x 20mm By the each.

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Stone Cabochon - 15x20mm Rectangle Cabochon - Prehnite


Cabochons!

You asked - we deliver. Cabochons are a domed topped stone with a flat back - and you see them used in those spectacular ads on the backs of beading magazines where someone has spend hundreds of hours beading those wonderful bead collars - riffing off the colours and patterns in a central stone cab.

 

The general technique is to glue down the cabochon to some super-suede or some Lacey's stiff stuff, and then start beading a "bezel" around it to hold it in place, and then embellish from there. There's a tutorial here for more details. 

 

Of course - cabochons have been mounted in traditional fabricated metal jewelry for eons, and can also be used in metal clay projects - but we do NOT recommend firing these. (Make the piece first and add the stone after.) We have no idea what will happen to them when fired. Except the dyed turquoise howlite - I can tell you what happens to that! It disappears! Just a little pile of white ash left. :-(