Deep Blue & Gold Natural Lapis Cuboid Tube Beads - 13mm x 4mmPrice is per 15 inch string of these beautiful beads each tube measures 13mm x 4mm, about 29 to the string. 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. In other