Tree Agate Crystal Bracelet Bead size:10 mm The kuchu - a small

The kuchu - a small hand-bound natural-fibre broom from Nepal

which keeps the stick clean and bright

so what the room smells in minute three is not what it smelled in minute one

the pigment once costlier than gold

Tree Agate Crystal Bracelet Bead size:10 mm The kuchu - a smallTree agate milky white threaded with green that branches like a tree, the dendritic chalcedony whose green is mineral, not plant. A different growth on every stone. From India, strung on elastic cord. The "tree" is manganese and iron oxide minerals that crept along fine cracks and branched as they grew, before the chalcedony sealed around them. It is the opaque white cousin of moss agate, the green drawn sharp against a milky ground. Because the