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I’ve always enjoyed making mala/meditation beads and was trying to figure out my next project when I saw my teacher’s set of beads mad of jet. I grabbed a few strands and got to work and have to say they were exactly what I was hoping for. The 8.5mm were the perfect size and the holes were very well made. I can’t wait to put these beads to work in my practice.
I love these spacer beads. I love the color and the antique finish and I absolutely love using them for my jewelry creations. The only thing I would say is that, I wish they had these in Antique Gold and like a bronze antique. Other than that, they are great and long lasting. My customers love them with their jewelry designs.
Deep shade of blue with flecks of gold. Great size for bracelets and necklaces or earrings. Very durable. High-quality highly recommend.Love using these in my jewelry!
This is truly a beautiful Tourmaline stone. Very colorful. A variety of color as well. Lots of pinks. High-quality. I really encourage you if you like this stone to use it. The facets and the cuts are done very well. High-quality stone and very colorful.
I absolutely love these stones! I use them all of the time. Beautiful coloring, beautiful faucet and the cuts are very nice and well done and clean. Highly recommend these stones for your projects.
These stones are so beautiful. With a nice clean cut on the stone. Faceting is pretty and colors are rich and overall stone quality is very good! Highly recommended.
I love Moonstone beads and pebbles from Tejas! Their quality is consistent and high! I have already made a necklace and earrings from the beads I received yesterday!
Lovely little 6mm perfect for adding a beaded edge on my dousing rods’ carrier!
Love tejas beads. I was able to create a beautiful bracelet with these beads and im so happy with them
So pretty! I ordered some of the matte finish moonstone at the same time and when I saw the two together, I just had to make a necklace using both.
These are beautiful with an amazing golden flash. I used them with a tiger’s eye fan set and a turquoise bead. The piece turned out stunning. I had to order more.
Excellent clarity almost invisible! If it wasn't for the reflective shine I'd have a hard time finding these on a table. Mala made for a devotee of White Tara so the clear quartz beads are set off with white moonstone beads picked out of a batch of left over multicolored moonstone. The guru bead is jadeite. All from Tejas. Findings scrounged from around the interweb.
Amazing banding and color range. I grabbed these because I felt like for some reason my hands enjoyed the feel of malas made with softer stones, and calcite is down near the softest. Since making the mala my feelings were confirmed, my hands love flicking these through my fingers. They're amazingly beautiful. This photo does them no justice - but neither do the photos on the Tejas site. These are just so beautiful and varied, both subtle and brash at the same time.
These beads are from Tejas, as are any beads I use these days because Tejas is fast and I don't need to worry about bead quality. The findings and guru bead are from various places around the internet.
Nice visual and tactile texture. The stripes make them so interesting to look at - when I had them all in a bowl getting ready to string them I spent quite a while enjoying the patterns. The wood's so smooth and the beads are finished to perfection. Makes for a nice light weight mala, even at 10mm which is what you see here. I did a mala with the 8mm beads and I think I like the 10mm because there's just more bead to host more pattern - but YMMV.
All beads from Tejas, the tiger stripe wood, and the small dzi spacers. The guru bead and findings from around the internet.
Beautiful pastels with an intensity of saturation. Super subtle variations in color and structure on the beads. 8mm. The phone camera makes the structure more visible than it is in person at a normal viewing distance. These are sleeper beads. When I first got them I thought "how pretty" - nice range of pastel colors but then found that unlike pastel colors, there's real saturation there. Then oh my get really close, get the right light, look at the cool patterns! They've gone from "how pretty" to fascinating. Compared to other jade beads I've used (jade is such a broad term...), these are so much more interesting. The Tejas photos are so dark - these are bright pastels.
Findings and howlite skulls from elsewhere, but the guru bead is new jade from Tejas and was a perfect match. Got that jade quality but with no real discernible pattern so it lets the Burmese jade beads show off.
Beautiful, soft, warm. Definitely a splurge, but worth it. Lots of different levels of inclusions and shades. They are lighter weight than any wood beads I've worked with. These aren't "every bead flawlessly smooth and round" like all the stone and wood beads I've gotten from Tejas, there are a very small number of tiny surface anomalies, but that's the nature of the material. (If you look at the big photos on the site you can see what I mean.) It's part of what makes these beads so very organic feeling. They glitter and glow in almost any kind of light, and when I'm wearing the mala on my wrist, they're almost a heat source.
The holes are small - I seldom work with beads with holes smaller than 1mm. I have two beads (of the three strands I got) with holes that are notably smaller than others. I've set them aside to use in some other project - no bead reaming on these! I used doubled FF silk for the mala so that I could have two strands of safety, and that was tight. I knotted each strand individually and used bead covers, one over each thread's knot along with a Buddha head bead with a small hole, to terminate the strands because the hole in the guru bead was just too big for a termination knot using FF silk. Hence two places to hang tassels or amulets.
The left over beads are destined for a wrist mala...
Beads are from Tejas - baltic amber plus tiger eye spacers. Guru bead and findings from various internet locations.
I ordered 5 different strands this time. They are all beautiful, as usual. I chose to review the green calcite so everyone could see how lovely they are, because they hadn't been reviewed yet. They are exactly as pictured, with some of them having very pretty banding. The different shades of green remind me that springtime is coming. Thank you, Tejas, for having consistently beautiful and quality beads.
A returning customer,
Cheri
I love apatite. These green apatite beads don't disappoint. They are on the darker side which I was looking for. Nicely cut beads and are uniform in size.
Beautiful beads with a hundred variations of white. There's also a little structural variation in them, patterns, although the phone camera over-accentuates that. In person at normal distances not very noticeable. But the best part here is how they feel. I've made other malas with white beads but none of them felt so engaging, soft, almost warm.
The photo is of the 8mm I also got 10mm. The 8mm is going to someone at my temple, the 10mm when it's done will be for me. Findings and guru bead are from elsewhere on the internet, but the spacer beads are multi moonstone from Tejas, I picked lighter colors for the guru bead and darker for the halfway point.
Beautiful green beads with a handful of deep purple beads (almost black). The matte finish initially bothered me because it seemed really dusty and flattened out the beautiful translucent qualities of fluorite. They also felt dry in hand, almost like a powdery surface. However... since this is a mala and it gets handled a lot they've gained color intensity and a bit of translucence slowly over time from my hand's natural oils. The purple beads have gained some character also, showing some whitish striping. Initial impressions of these almost convinced me I didn't like matte beads but they've come to life in real world usage, and I'm now trying another type of matte bead from Tejas - they reward your mantra accumulations!
While the findings and guru bead are from various internet sources, the brown dzi beads under the guru bead (guru bead's holes were so large I couldn't knot the cord) and marking it are from Tejas, as are the fluorite roundels that set off the markers. I'm finding that I'm using the fluorite roundels a LOT as markers on the malas I make. Everything high Tejas quality.
10mm beads. Excellent color, better than I expected from matte finish, they don't look dusty like matte can. As you can see in the Tejas display photos, there are a few random small dark streaks here and there that I initially thought were dirt or grease but are in fact part of the stone. Not a lot and really not noticeable with all the other beautiful color... only when you get them up close to your eye. They feel lovely and soft in hand, funny when you think about how hard Amazonite is.
Markers set off by clear quartz also from Tejas. Findings and howlite skulls from other places.
Beautiful striping and bands throughout. As always from Tejas excellent consistency and quality. Strung on leather cord with adjustable snake knot. The quarter marker findings are set off by hematite roundels, and the halfway marker by sardonyx and howlite roundels. All from Tejas. Guru bead, howlite skulls, and findings from various other providers.
This is absolutely A quality sardonyx. And note, the sardonyx roundels are very nice as marker beads, although I try to match hardness.
These are very pretty and added nice color to mala project
