Type of stone that we use for handmade jewelry

Besides the natural seed that we use for make handmade jewelry, we also use the gemstone, seashell, pearl, and wood.

The gemstones that we use are natural stone and synthetic stone (fake stone). The reasons that we use some synthetic stone are price, suitability with jewelry, and popularity. Like turquoise, most of turquoises on jewelry are synthetic because the real turquoise is expensive and the color of stone can become pale if it's kept in wrong way. So for using this stone on jewelry, the synthetic is more suitable, colorful, and popular than the real one. And some stone such as red coral stone is controlled to trade, so we have to use the synthetic stone.

The synthetic stone is made from the powder of stone and resin, but some are use sand or crushed shell with resin. Then added the color to the stone as the real stone such as red for coral stone or blue and green for turquoise.

It just some stone that we use the synthetic for the handmade jewelry. Even though the real gemstone is rather expensive, almost that we use for our handmade jewelry are real e.g. malachite, amethyst, onyx, lapis lazuli, and etc.