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Mystical knot in Amethyst jewelry which use to symbolizes endless love. It represents long free life, far away from separation and heartbreak. It also denotes endless togetherness and undying love. This lucky love symbol is most suitable for ensuring lasting romance in married life.

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Amethyst jewelry symbolizes the healing and perfecting health qualities. They are blessed with traditional rituals and relieves the wearer form poverty and blesses with abundance.
Jewelry use to be mysterious and ancient blessed. But for nowadays, the amethyst jewelry sale everywhere, one can even easily get from cheap costume jewelry or online jewelry stores, with free shipping, jewelry boxes and very low prices. People start to forget the way it use to be in our ancient days.

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Except for the Amethyst, cats eye beads, pandora beads, bicone beads, mardi gras beads, and chamilia beads are all have their ancient meaning but been fade away as the days passed by. They manifests in any conceivable form to assist any being who seeks her blessings. However blessed Prayer Malas are blessed by Kuan Yin Bodhisattva Temple of Universal Salvation, China. And Buddhist females are still wearing these malas on the right wrist and males wear it on the left wrist.

Thinking of how jewelry used to assist in counting prayer repetition and it is worn for protection. Amethyst was symbolized the qualities of grounding and energy it improves intuition with regards to challenges and responsibility. This amethyst is also called the calming stone amethyst.

Knowledge of gemstone

Gemstone plays an important role in jewelry making. The fashion jewelry with different gemstones can be easily found in the jewelry store.

A gemstone or gem (also called a precious or semi-precious stone, or jewel) is a piece of mineral in cut and polished form. However certain rocks (such as lapis lazuli) and organic materials (such as amber or jet) are not minerals, but are still used for jewelry, and are therefore often considered as gemstones as well. Most gemstones are hard, but some soft minerals are used in jewelry because of their luster or other physical properties that have aesthetic value. Rarity is another characteristic that lends value to a gemstone. Read more…

Overview

Obsidian is a naturally occurring very dark glass that is sometimes called a mineral. Obsidian is produced from erupting volcanoes when the right conditions are present. Obsidian is said to help balance the left and right hemispheres of the brain. Obsidian is found in North America, Italy, Scotland, and other countries. Obsidian was highly valued in ancient times and was often used as points for blades and weapons.

About the Stone

Obsidian sits at a 5-5.5 on the Mohs scale of hardness. Obsidian is created when lava erupts from a volcano, but only when certain conditions are met:

1. There needs to be a large amount of silica in the environment (this accounts for 70% of obsidian’s composition)
2. The lava must cool rapidly , freezing before in it has time for crystal growth.

Pure obsidian is dark, but impurities usually result in dark green, brown, black, and gray coloring. Other impurities result in stones known as snowflake obsidian, golden obsidian, apache tears, and rainbow obsidian.

Obsidian is found in many places in North America, Armenia, Italy, Mexico, Greece, and Scotland. Read more…

Agate is a a kind of gemstone jewelry ,the jewelry which produced by Agate is quite popular with women.but How to identify the true Agate?Please according to the following rules.

The symbol of the difference between Natural Agate and false is there has cross-sectional structure of a layer of grain, Make use of this flag, agate  will be very easy to identify.The finished products after cutting, because there is no obvious pattern neatly, so it’s easy to confuse the two.But generally speaking, natural agate has  cool feeling, like a painted surface, a layer of wax and a wax luster, translucency, It’s the hardness of the Moroccan 6-7,Even it will not scratch if use the knife.

Because it is in the molten state to form crystals, so mostly of them are spherical, the internal structure of the nature  Agate is tighter.

After grinding the surface is more delicate, rough wood and agate for a dramatic friction, instant, the agate is not fever, but  wood will burning.It Is often mixed with a variety of colors, forming a beautiful pattern, such as the flowery one or the striped one.

The fake Agate is synthetic, part of them are act as a high-quality stone. Its basic features are: Though it has cool handfeel, but there is no waxy feel and gloss.Some of the hardness is low, It is not easy to  Score the agate with a knife . broke it and observed the cross-section, in addition to it has not the laminated structure, granular-roughened or hispidulous;Check for any gaps.Opaque, the color is  clear-cut. Some unscrupulous traders glue a thin layer of organic on the surface of fake agate, it will giving a waxy luster and good feeling .This gives a person a kind of illusion.Meantime, The name must not let confuse an eye when buying, must notice to distinguish.Please Careful selection .

1, pattern and color: Ture agate has beautiful colours and the fine pattern. The fake one is lacking brightness or color; dull.Through comparison of the two,you will found that the contrast was marked.The color of Natural agate is clear and orderly, but most of the imitation agate have gorgeous colors, uniform, giving a false feeling.

2, texture: most of the fake agate are made of imitation stone ,The Texture is more softer than the real one. It is easy to Score the fake agate with a knife , and It is not easy to  Score the real one with a knife.  On the surface,usually the real one has pure without any defect.The more expensive an item is the more carefully we should examine it for faults.
3, Transparency:The Transparency of the natural agate is not as good as the synthetic one, it is a little chaos in it.But the transparent of the Synthetic agate is good as glass balls.

4, weight:  the weight of real agate jewelry is higher than synthetic agate.

5, temperature: the real agate is cool in summer and warm in winter,  but the temperature of fake agate isn’t maintained internally the way it is, but fluctuates with the temperature of their environment.

What are corals? 

Corals are the product of tiny living beings which settled in enormous colonies in the depths of warm seas long before our time. The polyps, surrounded by a fleshy skin, excrete a carbonic substance from which the corals grow like trees and branches. These can attain a height of sixteen inches (40 cm), though the actual branches seldom exceed one and a half inches (4 cm). At the forks, they are somewhat thicker. It is from these parts that the precious raw material for jewellery items, large coral beads or carvings is obtained.

Traditionally, the fragile little coral trees were brought up from the depths with trawl nets. However, since first-class corals have now become rather rare, divers are now deployed, in a less destructive process which involves their going down and harvesting the sensitive coral branches. After that, the branches are cleaned, sorted and processed by means of saws, knives, files or drills. Coral is not usually ground or cut on a wheel. Read more…

Native Americans believe that jasper brings rain.

Jasper was thought to drive away evil spirits and protect against snake and spider bites. It is said to provide protection, and to have a calming effect, giving stability and security. Jasper is also said to balance one’s physical, emotional and intellectual states.

Jasper is prized by natural healers as a general purpose healing gemstone. Wearing jasper was believed to strengthen the stomach. Jasper was also believed to cure gynecological problems. Holding a piece of Jasper in the hand during childbirth is said to help relieve pain and guard the mother and child.

Jasper brings joy into life. Different varieties of jasper has specific healing properties and effect on us. For example:

Yellow stones:Intelligence, Concentration. Influences Solar Plexus. Red: Provides protection. Believed to provide beauty and grace to young women. Useful for bronchials, and fevers.Influences lower Chakras.

Brown stones:Provides grounding and centering. Increases self-esteem.

Green stones:Useful for stomach problems, hallucinations, and to get restful sleep. Also useful as a general healing stone.

Leopard skin Jasper:Brings you what you need

Poppy Jasper:Brings joy into life.

Opalite Jasper:Helps you to sleep.

In jewellery design as in fashion, colours look crisper against a background of black, and black and white always looks right. In fine jewellery, the black backdrop is often supplied by onyx, a black chalcedony quartz with a fine texture. Some onyx also displays white bands or ribbons against a black background. If the layers are even, this type of onyx can be carved into cameos.

Onyx was very popular with the ancient Greeks and Romans. The name comes from the Greek word ‘onyx’, which means nail or claw. The story is that one day the frisky Cupid cut the divine fingernails of Venus with an arrowhead while she was sleeping. He left the clippings scattered on the sand and the fates turned them into stone so that no part of the heavenly body would ever perish. True, black isn’t normally the colour one associates with fingernails. (Did Venus wear Vamp, perhaps?) But in Greek times, almost all the colours of chalcedony from fingernail white to dark brown and black were called onyx. Later, the Romans narrowed the term to refer to black and dark brown colours only.

Onyx which is reddish brown and white is known as sardonyx. Sardonyx was highly valued in Rome, especially for seals, because it was said never to stick to the wax. The Roman general Publius Cornelius Scipio was known for wearing it a good deal.

Black onyx shines especially well when used as a backdrop for colour play. Its fine texture also makes it ideal for carving, making it a favoured material for today’s lapidaries. In the pin by designer Susan Helmich above, a carved piece of onyx with threads of white provides a stunning backdrop for a flash of colour. Onyx was often used as the perfect foil for carved rock crystal or the ‘drop dead red’ of rubies in art deco designs. It is also popular in marcasite jewellery. So if you would like to add a little black magic to your jewellery design, why not consider onyx?

10mm Gorgeous Black Onyx Gemstone Round Loose Beads

Black Banded Onyx Agate Gems Oval Loose Beads 1 Strand

Rhodochrosite, malachite, chrysanthemum stone, rhodonite, and ruby in zoisite are just a few of the crystals that have beautiful abstract patterns. Another of these crystals, one which adds a broad spectrum of colors to its palette is the aptly named Picasso marble.

Its colors, brown, black, cream, and various shades of gray often form the patterns of abstract landscapes. A major clue to the meaning of this stone can be found from the process through which these patterns form.

Picasso jasper (also called Picasso marble or simply Picasso stone) is metamorphic limestone, Metamorphosis is one of the three ways stones are formed (the other kinds of stones are igneous and sedimentary). Geologically, a metamorphic stone forms deep in the earth, its essential nature altered by heat and pressure. It may go through metamorphosis more than once, and each time new elements are added to its composition. Only those aspects of the stone which are impermeable to pressure and heat are preserved.

picasso jasper is widly used to make jewelry. And it become the fashion jewelry. Such as picasso jasper stone beads, bracelets, pendants and necklaces.

Yellow Agate strengthens heart, gives courage, harmonizes heart, throat and solar plexus, detoxifies system, reduces temperature, sharpens, sight, illuminates, gives balance, eloquence, vitality and joy, mellows, brings prosperity, raises self esteem, balances extremism, aids in reoxygenation of body, regenerates, protects from x-rays, strength, protection, support, aids upset stomach, lungs, depression, lethargy, throat, skin, tumor. Earth, For grounding & balance. For strength, protection and support. Aids strength and courage. Compels truth, promotes good manners, happiness, intelligence, prosperity, longevity, fertility, and good health. Assists in making and keeping friends, helpful to farmers and those interested in growing plants. Aid in restoration of energy, used in healing, and believed to bring wearer happiness, wealth, health, and long life. Increases ability to ward off self-induced anger and inner bitterness.

Hindu mystics believe that agate can help children overcome their fears, learn to walk earlier and maintain their balance. Set in a gold necklace, agate will quicken a sluggish metabolism. Place variegated and banded agate crystals under your pillow at night to relieve insomnia and bring good dreams.

We have introduced opal, today we will learn more about it. 

Opal love to be worn on the skin

Due to the differing percentage of water, Opals may easily become brittle. They always contain water – usually between 2 and 6 per cent, but sometimes even more. Thus if stored too dry or exposed to heat over a longer period of time, Opals will show fissures and the play of colour will become paler. Therefore, Opal jewellery should be worn as often as possible, for then the gemstone will receive the needed humidity from the air and from the skin of its wearer.
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