Emerald Green Glass
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Making anything hand crafted takes great time, knowledge, passion, and care. In the same way a Chef can cook the best meal you have ever tasted, or a Architect can build the most amazing house you've ever seen, a jeweler that makes hand crafted jewelry undoubtedly will make it the best hand crafted jewelry you have ever laid eyes on. Most of these jewelers use something called "Dichroic Glass". It was first advanced by NASA in the 1950's and 1960's and was used it in satellite mirrors. This glass contains multiple layers of different oxides; silver, titanium, chromium, aluminum, zirconium, magnesium, and silicon. This is done through a vacuum process.
Because of the way the glass is refined and fused scientifically through firings, the result is a piece of glass that is always unique in shape, and color. No two are the same. This is as authentic as it gets! This glass can be made into many different types of jewelry for example pendants, earrings, chains, bangles, cuff links, rings, bracelets and much more. Some of these pieces are absolutely amazing. The colorization is just beautiful, this is something you're really going to want to check out!
Before NASA used Dichroic Glass however and before Dichroic Glass was used for glass fusing and jewelry, it was used in Egypt and Mesopotamia back as late as 4500 BC and 3000 BC. They used this fused glass to make bowls, jewelry, and detailed wall tiles.
The word Dichroic actually is derived from two Greek root words, "di" for two and "chroma" for color. So "Dichroic" literally means "two-colored." Obviously the way glass is fused now however it is more than just two simple colors. A piece of Dichroic hand crafted glass jewelry can have anywhere from one to dozens upon dozens of colors ranging from greens and blues to reds and oranges. You can find some really artsy patterns with a smattering of colors down to a green colorization that has the look of a green emerald.
As far as I can tell for all the work that goes into these pieces, they sure aren't costly, and are affordable for almost everyone. Try searching for things like "Dichroic Glass jewelry", "Dichroic Glass" or get more specific and do a search for exactly what you want "Dichroic Glass pendants". These sites are just about everywhere on and offline. I was in Florida last year staying in a beach house by the ocean, and there was this really cute shopping area with all kinds of really unique stores. One store had these Dichroic Glass Jewels in the store, I swear they look even more fantastic in person than in a picture. They almost have the look of being painted. It's a real sight to see. Every color you could possibly imagine exists with in these pieces of jewelry. The next time you're searching for a gift for your mom, aunt, sister, daughter or whomever, this would be a great idea to make them feel really special!
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Enchanting Emerald Earrings
The word, emerald comes from Sanskrit ‘marakat’ and belongs to beryl mineral family. Marakat means “the green of growing things”. Since its discovery in various cultures, it was christened with different names. The Latin for emerald is “smaragdus” which later changed to emerald in.
Emerald is found to be studded into variedly styled jewelry. Especially, emerald earrings come for great prices when they are greater in carat size, in spite of being heavily flawed. In history, emerald jewelry has been a key player in the world of precious gemstone. Even Queen Cleopatra was herself fascinated with lush green emerald.
Muzo mines in Colombia give most of the finest colored emerald roughs. Today in the modern times, due to various techniques to treat stones, flaws are hidden easily. In spite of high yielding naturally flawless emerald found rare, treated stones are filled with oil or epoxy resin to hide their cracks and fractures.
As a matter of fact, this vivifying and youthful gemstone is found to be doing a great work in beautifying people. However, there have been many misnomers or informative stuff which should be kept in mind while buying emerald jewelry.
Emerald shades vary as sources become different. This article spares light on the varieties of emerald with a difference in hue. In addition, to mislead customers, there are an incredible number of fraudulent in the market. Especially in the places which are exotic gem mining spots.
African emerald is mined in Zambia. These possess a fine clarity and an intense green shade. Colombian emerald is the finest of the emeralds present. These boast of a desirable pure green with a faint hint of blue. In addition, they have the property of dichroism, i.e., the color has two axes as viewed from different angles. Colombian specimens of this elegant gemstone. These ones are the most sought after emerald gemstones.
Brazilian stones are a little lighter in color. However, they comprise of more yellow than Colombian ones. The rocks are also mined from India and Pakistan too. There are errorless roughs mined which have been a part of the royal jewelry in Indian culture. For example, Mughal period displayed a massive Taj Mahal emerald. This was one of the treasured lush spring signifying gemstone which has Islamic writings carved at one side and floral designs on the opposite side.
Talking about the misnomers and their actual names, the information is quite consistent. Chatham emerald is a synthetic stone which actually misleads people. Esmeralda emerald is actually a green tourmaline which corrupt jewelers sell at high prices as authentic emerald. Peridot , a lovely light green transparent gemstone is often misjudged as one due to its similar hue.
A doublet is a gemstone which is top fused to an appropriately colored glass bottom. Therefore, doublets present with names like Lannyte, Mascot, and Soude` emerald is present to innocent buyers as authentic pieces. In addition green sapphire is also sold as emerald known as Oriental emerald.
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