160 Deep Blue & Gold Natural Lapis 4mm Heishi BeadsPrice is per 15 inch string of these beautiful beads about 160 x 4mm to the string. Each bead measures 4mm x about 2mm. Lapis Lazuli is gemstone straight out of fairy tales of the Arabian Nights: deepest blue with golden shining Pyrite inclusions which twinkle like little stars. Named after Lapis, the Latin word for stone, and the Arabian for blue. Thousands of years before Christ, Egyptian and Persian royalty wore lapis as a talisman to deter danger.