These 4mm Preciosa Ornela fire polished rounds in Marea come 600 pieces to a pack, giving you serious working quantity of a finish that's genuinely hard to find elsewhere. The permanent iridescent rainbow coating means the color payoff you see now is the color payoff you'll have in finished work — years down the line.

Marea layers a transparent glass base with a shifting rainbow coating, so the bead reads differently depending on the angle and the light — dark and moody one moment, flashing violet or teal the next.

Specifications

• Size: 04mm
• Color: Marea (transparent)
• Finish: Rainbow/A.B./Iris
• Material: Glass, made in Bohemia, Czechia
• Quantity: 600 Pieces

What to make with them

The 4mm faceted round is a workhorse size for bead weaving — use these in peyote or herringbone where that iridescent surface will catch light at every stitch turn. They're equally at home strung in graduated necklaces or wired into chainmaille accents where the facets and the color shift can do their thing without competition.