amber beads

Resin necklace components

Amber beads are small rounded pieces of fossilized tree resin, typically golden to brownish-orange, strung together as jewelry or used in crafts.

Amber has been prized since antiquity for its warm color and the occasional preserved insect trapped inside.

She wore a strand of amber beads that had belonged to her grandmother.

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Top 500,000
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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G