Black Agate Tumbled Stone Black Agate and the stone has been

and the stone has been set into rings and seals wherever its patterns suggested gardens

different format

Hand-carved from the dark variant of natural soapstone (mineralogical name steatite) - the same talc-based metamorphic rock as the other carved-stone holders in the range

chosen for its form

The two together carry an older register - slower

Black Agate Tumbled Stone Black Agate and the stone has beenBlack 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