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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;tie.dye.cat, post: 867388, member: 152&quot;]The gold glitter looks like what I&#039;ve heard referred to as Aventurine Goldstone.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know if that&#039;s really the proper term, but you&#039;ll find plenty of listings if you use those words.&nbsp; It looks like some goldstone was ground up and applied in stripes around the beads.</p><p><br /></p><p>Can&#039;t say I&#039;ve ever seen goldstone on millefiori beads, but it certainly adds to the &quot;pop&quot; of the beads.&nbsp; Very pretty.</p><p><br /></p><p>EDIT:&nbsp; Huh, I thought goldstone was a real stone, but apparently it&#039;s just glass.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>From Wiki:&nbsp; <i>&quot;Goldstone is a type of glittering glass made in a low-oxygen reducing atmosphere. The finished product can take a smooth polish and be carved into beads, figurines, or other artifacts suitable for semiprecious stone, and in fact goldstone is often mistaken for or misrepresented as a natural material.&quot;</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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