On a trip to Israel, I found beautiful olive woods crosses in a store in Bethlehem. The store owners (brothers) make the crosses in a shop below the store. I had to have them to use as the cross on my prayer beads. The cross is Approx. 2-1/4" long and approx. 1- 1/4" across. Jerusalem is stamped on the back. The natural wood colors vary, but they are all unique and beautiful!
The Length of the prayer beads from top of circle to the bottom of the cross is 9”
Bead sizes range from seed beads to 8mm and 12mm. The 8mm round beads are natural stone turquoise sea sediment agates malachite and the 12mm round beads are brown faceted AB glass. The invitatory bead is a 12mm natural wood bead. Little silver seed beeds seperate the cruciform beads.