Large Majestic Royal Blue Lapis Barrel BeadsPrice is per 16 inch string of these beautiful beads. Each barrel measures 12mm x 9mm loads of gold pyrite. Lapis Lazuli is gemstone straight out of fairy tales of the Arabian Nights: deepest blue with golden shining Pyrite inclusions which twinkle like little stars. Named after Lapis, the Latin word for stone, and the Arabian for blue. Thousands of years before Christ, Egyptian and Persian royalty wore lapis as a talisman to deter danger. In other