Multicolour Moonstone Chips Beaded Necklace

There are strands that carry light the way water carries a sky. Moonstone has long been revered across the Indian subcontinent as a stone of quiet luminosity, gathered by gemstone traders in Jaipur's lane markets and prized by jewellers who understand that beauty need not shout. These multicolour moonstone chips are uncut and deliberately irregular, each small fragment retaining the adularescent shimmer that makes the stone worth wearing at all. Strung continuously along a single strand measuring 34 inches (approximately 86 cm) in length, the necklace holds roughly 408 beads averaging 7 mm in size, each chip catching light differently from its neighbour. The palette shifts between white, peach, grey and blue-green, as moonstone naturally does, and the overall weight of 47 grams gives the strand a satisfying, grounded drape. No setting obscures the stone; no metal competes with it. The craft here is the curation itself, the careful selection of chips that together read as coherent. Layered three times as a shorter choker it suits an ivory chanderi kurta at a Sunday brunch or an afternoon literary gathering. Worn at its full length, it complements a pale silk saree or a linen column dress at an understated evening occasion. This is a free-size piece suited to most necklines. The strand is lightweight enough for sustained daily wear, the chips smooth against the skin. It is a necklace for someone who already knows what she likes.

Details

• Dimensions: 34.0" Length
  7 mm Avg Bead Size
  Avg 408 Bead Per Strand
• Weight: 47.0 g
• SKU: JPV28