Any pendant which can be made with near-colourless diamonds can also be made with black diamonds. It may be more difficult because of the greater rarity of black diamonds, but it can be done, with great results.
It is quite unusual, but not impossible, to find diamonds drilled as beads. They have occasionally been polished as beads even in antiquity, sometimes as a briolette shape. One reason for their historic rarity was the difficulty in drilling them with a central hole, with modern equipment and techniques such as lasers, it is much easier. Even so, it still remains uncommon to find diamonds drilled as beads, and strung as necklets. We at Chard are proud to make jewellery creations which are different. One of the other reasons diamonds are not often seen as beads, is that they are best polished as round brilliants, and a bead shape does little to display their brilliance. With black diamonds however, there is no light transmitted through the stone, so there is not transmitted brilliance to be lost, there is only the high surface lustre which reveals the secret that they are indeed diamonds. We believe the polishing of black diamonds as beads is therefore a logical and desirable way to utilise them in jewellery.

Necklets

Our first black diamond bead creations are a matching pair of necklet and bracelet. The details of the necklet are shown on this page, while we have given the bracelet its own page.

Weight	Shape	Description	Avail	Price per Carat	Price £	Price $
43	Beads	17.5 Inch Bead Necklet	Yes	£4,250	£2,839	$4,663

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