Black Agate Tumbled Stone Royal Sandalwood Stick transparent where the stone runs

transparent where the stone runs clean

set apart from harder things

the great Brazilian geodes grew inside cooling lava flows around 130 million years old

It is the banded cousin of onyx

Made by Kathmandu Valley craftspeople in the same broom-grass-and-binding tradition as the larger household brooms

Black Agate Tumbled Stone Royal Sandalwood Stick transparent where the stone runsBlack agate small tumble polished stones of deep black chalcedony, some crossed by fine grey white banding, filled layer by layer in a volcanic cavity. Smooth in the hand, sold in a small set. From India. Agate fills a cavity in volcanic rock layer by layer, each band of silica laid on the one before; black agate reads as deep black, some stones crossed by fine parallel grey and white, no two the same. It is the banded cousin of onyx. Agate is named