HANDMADE STONE BEAD JEWELRY

It can be said that something retro is always in fashion, and now is the time for handmade
stone bead jewelry. Retro-inspired designs and new variations on vintage styles are popular items now.
Some of the gemstones used for natural bead necklaces, bracelets, finger rings, ear studs and earrings are:

Lava Stone Beads and Labradorite Beads Bracelet

LAVA STONE: this is real retro; the style originally of ancient Rome, classic but designed with a new look. Lava stone is  formed directly from the natural cooling of melted volcanic rock.
With their uniform color and elegant appearance, red, green purple, black or brown lava stone beads come in a great variety of shapes, round, oval, flat, or heart-shaped. Unique alone, but also combined with amethyst, turquoise and other stones in a complementary design.

Amethyst Ear Studs

AMETHYST: a quartz-like gemstone with a vitreous luster, found in light pink-purple, lilac and  deep violet-purple, this wine-stained gem's meaning from ancient Greek means 'sober or not drunk '. Makes a good combination with lava stone. Major sources are Austria, Brazil, Uruguay, Zambia, Canada, India, South Korea, some states of the USA and the Ural mountains.Once considered equally valuable alongside diamond, ruby, emerald and sapphire. More amethyst deposits discovered recently have made the price of this gem much lower. The most highly valued amethyst is inclusion-free and is a uniform, deep purple throughout.

Amethyst jewelry such as bracelets can be combined with other stones, but amethyst alone can be used as it comes in a variety of hues. Can be worn with formal and casual attire equally well.

 Lapis Lazuli Bracelet

LAPIS LAZULI: a dark blue stone with gold flecks, lapis was created millions of years ago, Major sources include Afghanistan, Egypt, Canada and Chile. It was one of the first

 Onyx Beads with Crystal Ball Bracelet

ONYX: another quartz-like gem, mined in Uruguay, India. Mexico, Brazil and Pakistan, onyx is the most affordable of the black gemstones. It has a smooth surface like marble. Its hardness and fine texture make it suitable for carving into various shapes.  Highly recognizable by the typically back and white zebra-like bands running through the stone, though more common are the stones with bands of reddish or brownish.hues.
Cut and polished smooth or as a bead, onyx is a fine stone for prayer beads, rosaries and worry beads. In stone bead jewelry it is particularly beautiful in combination with other stones, pearls especially.

Freshwater Pearl with Crystal Ball Bracelet

FRESHWATER PEARL: pearls organically nurtured in an ideal environment. Japan popularized culturing techniques some 100 years ago but now China is the biggest producer of fine-quality freshwater pearls. These pearls have greater variety of color and size than marine pearls, making for more varied handcrafted designs.
Perfect in any number of jewelry items either on their own or with other stone beads.

Mother of Pearl Shell Bracelet

MOTHER OF PEARL SHELL: the mineral nacre from inside an oyster or similar mollusk, secreted as a coating to protect its soft body. One design that shows off its qualities is as a pendant necklace with a waxed linen cord selected to complement the iridescent hues of the mother of pearl. In addition, this shell is designed for finger rings, bracelet and earrings.

Turquoise Beads Bracelet

TURQUOISE: the gem regarded as sacred by ancient cultures across the world.  Hardness and
richness of color are the criteria used to determine its quality. Turquoise can come in
shades of green-blue or light blue. The fewer veins of inclusion a turquoise stone contains,
the more valuable it is. Turquoise can be made into beads of all shapes and sizes. Pricing of the beads depends, as for pearls, on their size in millimetres.


SYNTHETIC TURQUOISE: a good, less costly alternative to natural turquoise. The pulverized
stone powder is resin-impregnated, and the result is a bead that compares well with the real
thing. The synthetic stone may also have more luster than the natural one.

Synthetic Coral Beads Bracelet

SYNTHETIC CORAL: now that coral reefs, the natural source of coral, have been steadily
depleted, this product serves to fill the demand. It is easy to take care of and it is
virtually indestructible. Beaded coral jewelry with a mixture of pearls or strung with
natural Shiva Eye shell makes a stylish bracelet, and coral earstuds set in silver bezels make for intriguing designs.

Author: Michael Briton

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Fashion Jewelry Color Trends for Spring 2011

First, we have to say HAPPY NEW YEAR 2011 to all. we wish the happiness are full filled in your life. Absolutely that there are many things new on the fashion cat walks in the new year. Also for this year, many things new and many things are flash back fashion.

As we used to tell in the blog post about "Jewelry Trends in 2011" that the trends for this year is big, metal, motif design, and etc. But there are other one trend that also hot in this year is Faux Gemstone or Synthetic gemstone (also called fake gemstone). Go for resin and acrylic faux gemstones as they look gorgeous and appear startlingly authentic. Big singular baubles or a cluster of faux gemstones in an opulent hue are both eye catching and dramatic. Especially when mix and match with the color trends for this season that make the jewelry look more attractiveness.

The jewelry designers have chosen for the jewelry color for spring season present an interesting marriage of unexpected warm and perfect tones, The color names for jewelry color for spring 2011 season are Russet, Silver Peony and Silver Cloud.

Russet is classic brown color with a reddish tinge. In terms of jewelry, Smoky quartz is a popular variety of quartz and inexpensive. Other Russet jewelry color: Tiger’s Eye and Banded Agate

Silver Peony is a natural skin tone, fresh and light. The Gemstones jewelry for this Pantone will be Red Jasper on the low end and a light Golden Topaz for the other extreme.

Silver Cloud is the quintessential neutral that can rely on to coordinate with everything in their closet. The perfect jewelry for silver cloud: Gray Cat’s Eye, Quartz with Gray rutilization and lighter tones of natural Hematite.

Reference :

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http://www.jewellerygem.com/2010/12/jewelry-color-for-spring-2011-trends/

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What is Gemstone?

Many people understanding about gemstone is only mean to diamond. Actually gemstones are also rocks, crystals, and others stones. Today I'll describe about what is gemstone?

A gemstone is a piece of attractive mineral, some rock and organic material which is cut and polished to making jewelry or accessory. Some gemstones are used for gems in crystal.
The 2 classifications of polishing are “Cabochons” and “Facets”. The cabochons are cut as smooth, dome or convex top with a flat bottom. Facets are flat faces on geometric shapes, reflect with light, round brilliant cut. Cabochon is usually applied to dim gems like turquoise, opal, etc., while facets is usually applied to transparent stones like ruby or amber.

The most attractive feature of gemstones is color. When the daylight (also called “white light”, is mixed actually many of different light) passes through the gemstone, some light can passes through, but some light is absorbed. As Amber appear yellow because it absorbed all the color of white light (red, blue, green, etc.) except yellow. The Amazing of gemstone’s color is even though the same gemstone, appear in many different color such as sapphires show different shades of blue and pink, while fancy sapphires exhibit a whole range of yellow to orange-pink colors. The difference of colors is base on the atomic structure of stone.

The treatment of gemstone is affected to the color and clarity of the stone.  The heating process has been well know to treats the gemstone for centuries. But the different gemstones are different way to treats. Waxing or oiling is suitable for emerald and turquoise. Because of emerald is contained the natural fissures, and wax or oil is colored to make the emerald appear the better color and clarity.

In the world there are variety kind of gemstones that we can use to make jewelry. Absolutely that you can find a lot of jewelries with beautiful gemstones on our website - http://www.naturalhandmadejewelry.com



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Turquoise stone

Can not deny that nowadays TURQUOISE is founded widely in jewelry and fashion. Since the beginning of the year 2010, many brands release their new items with the turquoise stone and turquoise color. Because of the color of turquoise is not over bright and mellow like the pastel tone and looks relaxing, so that is compatible with many colors such as white, gray, dark blue, or black. Moreover, in many country has the belief that turquoise means to "Protection" and some area use this stone for treatment, so no wonder that turquoise always use to make the jewelry and amulet.

Turquoise is used for making jewelry since first dynasty of Egypt or may be before. The French conducted archaeological excavation of Egypt and found many jewelry which use turquoise. In France, turquoise was first introduced from the Turkish, so they call "Turkish Stone". In the culture of Western, turquoise is the traditional birthstone for who born in December.

The most of turquoises which used in jewelry are synthetic (also called fake turquoise), because the price is not too high and easy to take care. The color of real turquoise may become pale when it get heat or when the time passed by but not for synthetic, the color of synthetic turquoise is always bright. The synthetic turquoise stone is first produced from Egyptian by glazed earthenware.

Many people may doubt that some turquoises have the dark veins like the spiderweb but some are not, those dark veins called "Spiderweb matrix". The matrix is occurred from the weather and oxidation processing over millions of years. In some country matrix is make the turquoise more beautiful and more value, on the others hand many country in Middle East thought that making imperfection with the stone and the value is less.

Many items of our product use turquoise stone to compose the jewelry, and certainly that is always popular.

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