In Reply to: Beads posted by madge on Wednesday, 21. March 2007 at 10:48 Bali Time:
Ubud isn't really a place where businesses have websites except for a few like Murnis.
Ubud Beads have strings of gemstone beads in various shapes & sizes. I bought some flat rectangular 'red coral' beads in a string for 70k rph, and some sodalite (which is lapis lazuli blue with a lot of grey & white) in a string for 110k rph. They also had some VERY big 'red coral' which they would sell singly and 5 of those cost 28K.
When I say a string...it is only temporary string to hold them together.
They also had beautiful yellow jasper which my friend got me another time and unakite which I will buy next time. The rectangular ones are around an inch long so you only need 3 or 5 for a necklace with some kind of filler beads.
They have all sorts of interesting shapes & sizes.They have large round beads, flat on the sides, but with carving.
They also have a lot of strings of dyed shell chips and they have a few silver beads (Sold singly).
Here's what unakite looks like.....
http://www.spacetrader.com.au/product_info.php/cPath/763_804/products_id/9886
sodalite....
http://www.spacetrader.com.au/product_info.php/cPath/763_800/products_id/9210
they also have PICTURE jasper which is lovely....I loved the rectangular ones in that...
trying to find a pic of the yellow jasper on the web..it is quite a greenish yellow and all the ones I can find are golden yellow.
Get your friend to trawl the web for gemstones & she could give you a good idea...Spacetraders website is quite good.