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Colors and uses of Picture Jasper

Friday, July 31st, 2009

nullrnrnrnPicture jasper is an opaque rock of virtually any color stemming from the mineral content of the original sediments or ash. It is an extremely interesting mineral that has been known to man for thousands of years. In fact, there is even evidence of prehistoric man using jasper as weapons or tools in Ethiopia, perhaps millions of years ago.rnrnPicture jasper is mainly known to come in three different colors, yellow, brown and red. Besides these colors, it can also come as striped or spotted. It can sometimes be found with plenty of mineral inclusions such as Hematite or Goethite. When other minerals are present, Jasper takes on wild and attractive hues and attributes. Jasper comes in many sizes and can sometimes be found in big chunks usually near quartz veins. rnrnToday, picture jasper is used as ornamental jewelry and it can be a great way to be in fashion, since this mineral goes well with today’s sensibilities and styles. Many times jasper is used in bracelets, earrings, pendants and rings. Jasper can also be sewn onto fabrics such as handbags or even shoes. If you are looking for an attractive gemstone with plenty of style, color and variety, check out Jasper.rnrnPicture jasper is very common and is found throughout the world. Many ancient people knew about this mineral and used it mainly as ornamental jewelry, seals for politicians or to create everyday items such as bowls or small cases.rnrnTo know more jewelry knowledge,please visit www.aypearl.com , wholesale jewelryonline store.It offers a wide variety of handmade jewelry products – wholesale pearl,wholesale crystal,wholesale gemstone,wholesale turquoise,wholesale coral,wholesale shell and etc.rnrn

what is Akoya pearls

Friday, July 31st, 2009

nullrnrnAkoya pearls are cultured saltwater pearls which are cultivated from the oyster species Pinctada fucata martensii, primarily in Japan and China. Renowned for their luster, Akoya pearls are the pearls most often used in necklaces. They are generally white or cream colored, and have overtone colors of rose, yellow, or green.rnAfter the development of modern pearl culturing techniques by Kokichi Mikimoto in the early part of the 20th century, akoyas from Japan became the first pearls to be cultured on a large scale. They continue to be popular today, although production of Japanese akoyas has declined somewhat in recent years, due to water pollution and disease.rnIn recent years the Chinese have overtaken the Japanese in akoya pearl production. The Chinese began culturing akoya pearls in the early 90’s, but had limited success until recent years. For more than a decade Chinese akoya pearls have been considered vastly inferior to this Japanese counterparts, but as experience and more advance technologies have become more common place the Chinese are now producing akoya pearls of qualities that rival that of the Japanese.rnDue to the increased pressure of the Chinese competition many Japanese pearl farmers have focused much of their attention on culturing large akoya pearls, as quality akoya pearls larger than 8mm are a rare find in China. In lieu of farming smaller pearls, many Japanese factories now import their smaller akoya requirements from neighboring China. The pearls are treated and strung in Japan so that they may still carry the mark ‘Made in Japan’. It has been reported that more than 80% of the pearls 7mm and smaller have come from Chinese farms regardless of whether or not they are sold by Japanese suppliers.rnThe akoya oyster is the smallest pearl-producing oyster, so akoya pearls also tend to be small, ranging in size from about 2 to 11 millimeters. They also tend to be the most consistently round and near-round pearls, making them ideal in terms of matching for multi-pearl jewelry such as strands, bracelets, etc.rnrnTo know more jewelry knowledge,please visit www.aypearl.com , wholesale jewelryonline store.It offers a wide variety of handmade jewelry products – wholesale pearl,wholesale crystal,wholesale gemstone,wholesale turquoise,wholesale coral,wholesale shell and etc.rn

AYpearl.com give you general overview of Jade

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

rnrnrnIn ancient times, just as today, jade was used for personal adornment. Rings, bracelets, pendants, beads, and other personal ornaments all caved from jade appear very early in history. rnrnThe ring disk - a symbol of heaven - is worn as a talisman even today. Jade bracelets believed to offer protection against rheumatism are still worn in some parts of China. wholesale jewelryrnrnJade has long been treasured in China as the gemstone associated with royalty. Due to jade’s extreme hardness, it possibly may have once been used to craft tools and weapons early in history. However, jade is also very brittle, and the early jade artifacts that have been uncovered appear to have had symbolic purposes as opposed to practical ones. rnrnKnives, daggers, and scepters crafted from jade were used in religious or military ceremonies in China. Similarly, the Maori of New Zealand used clubs of jade to represent authority. rnrnJade is prized for its hardness, glassy luster, and rich translucent colors. While it’s most popular color is green, which is usually a rich and intense green with a greasy finish, Jade can actually come in a wide variety of colors including white, grey, yellow and orange.rnrnWhen pricing jade the overall color is the most important factor, though attention is also paid to the translucency, texture, and also to pattern in the stone. rnrnCertain patterns, such as the one called “moss in snow”, are highly valued. Jade historically comes from two distinct minerals jadeite and nephrite, today it is jadeite jade that is considered the genuine article, commanding much higher prices than nephrite because it comes in far more vivid green colors and has a finer translucency. handmade jewelryrnrnrnJade of one type or another can be found in Burma, China, Central America, Brazil, Canada, Japan, India, Siberia, Finland, Tanzania, and elsewhere; in the United Sates, it occurs in California as well as in the northeast and southwest of the country.rnrnrnrnnull

Identification of Natural Turquoise

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

rnrnTurquoise is an opaque gem with color ranging from light blue, medium blue, green, blue to green, there are dark spots, and texture. Turquoise of relatively good quality is compact, so that is conducive to polishing color; the poor quality ones are porous, easy to fade after sunlight bleaching. Turquoise blue color is because of copper, and green is caused by iron. But All in all, the evaluation criteria of quality are: the bluer in color, the better its quality. The more intense of the texture, the better its quality will be.wholesale jewelryrnrnrnIn order to improve the poor quality of some of the appearance of natural turquoise, color, improve durability and make it easy to grinding and polishing is not easy broken, usually wax injection, injection molding and other methods to change the quality of natural turquoise.rnrnrnThis practice is generally accepted in jewelry industry; after all, there is only too little high-quality turquoise. The main components of the Modified turquoise natural are still natural, but after modification process, a lot of natural energy losses, if purchased in order to obtain energy from the turquoise, the natural elements are to some extent has a loss. If your turquoise jewelry is used to obtain energy from it, then you’d better not to buy the modified ones.handmade jewelryrnrnrnGenerally speaking, the current good quality turquoise that suitable for grinding is rare, so if in the market to see the polished into beads or other shaped turquoise bracelet, basic is not natural and may be changed quality, or it may be synthetic. Only some of the irregular to maintain the natural shape, and the turquoise bracelet wire sag, can be judged as the basic natural. But many people feel that as ugly, this is no way, and that is hard to find good turquoise jewelry. So do not expect people to take this material to do the bracelet, is usually used ring, also you can not see wire. So be careful in identification. fashion jewelryrn rnrnrnTags: turquoise turquoise jewelry turquoise bracelet rnrnrnrnrn nullrn

The jewelry story on sutra

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

rnrnThe Buddhism is one of the world’s three religions, it has been spreaded from India to our country since the late Western Han Dynasty, which had a strong impact on political, social, cultural, scientific and technological fields of our country for thousands of years. The following is a jewelry story about the Buddhism.wholesale jewelryrnrnThere was a rich man in a country named “Happy without grif”,whose name was MoheTan, his wife named Tuo, Tuo gave birth to a boy with Blissful appearance, to their surprise the newly born children can speak. He vowed to day:”I will help all poverty people, and enable the old wifeless or widowed people to live on happy life.”The parents were in great surprise, they had a suspicion that it is the monster metempsychosis, and intended to tell fortune, the baby understood immediately and said:” you can set your heart at rest, I am not a monster. I only have pity on the poor people and want to help them” Because the baby has the ambition , the parents named him “Ambition”. rnWhen he was 17 years old, he said to his parents: “I see that there are so many poverty-stricken people in world, they are so pitiful. I would like to manage to help them, make them on happy life. Although parents in possession of much wealth, the poor person are more, the wealth still insufficiently I donated. I want to dive into the sea for gathering jewelry.”He took a boat out picked much jewelry. He sends for the jewelry which he gathered to his country, and then he went on a sailing. fashion jewelryrnOne day, the sea level emerged a big tree which suddenly reached to the sky. Ambition hitched the ship and climbed up the tree, he saw a silver city in the distant.. The Palace was made of silver, the sky was reverberating wonderful music, the beautiful girls went by. But a poisonous python had entire encircled with the city three laps protecting this city vigilantly. Ambition then sat, carried on meditation. The poisonous python thought Ambition was harmless, and fallen asleep, Ambition seized the chance to stole into the silver city. For there was no stranger come here, hearing a stranger king was very happy, he arrived at the city gate to welcome Ambition. After living in the country for three months Ambition said goodbye to the king. The King can’t detain him really, then ordered a servant to fetch gathering jewelry, gave it to Ambition saying:“ The gathering jewelry is able to absorb each kind of gold, silver and jewelry that is several dozens of miles away.”rnrnWhen Ambition found his ship and preparation for returning to homeland. Many Dragon Kings heard that Ambition had obtained the gathering jewelry, ordered the sea gods to seize it. The sea gods obtained the gathering jewelry by cheating, they threw the gathering jewelry into the sea, then appeared the primary form, plunged into the sea. Ambition knew he was swindled, shouted: “I found the gathering jewelry through untold many hardship, today I am deceived unexpectedly by you. If you do not hurry to give me back, I will drain the sea water!”rnThe sea gods laughed when they listened that, and took it nothing. Ambition scooped up the sea water day after day. His sacrifice spirit had moved the middle of forehead, many deities helped him scoop up the sea water. Soon, the sea water was left over 1/3. The sea Dragon Kings were frightened extremely, had to return the gathering jewelry to Ambition. Henceforth, Ambition had inexhaustible wealth. He donated the wealth to all destitute people , enabled people live on warm and sufficient life.handmade jewelryrnrnnullrnrn

The uses of shell decoration

Monday, July 6th, 2009

rnShell, we believe that most of people are familiar with it, when talking about shell, people certainly will associate with the sea, the sand beach and the sea breeze, or think of the decorations and handicrafts. Shell, smooth and bright, it not only give people the visual of seashore character, but also bring people to enjoy the romantic of seashore scenery. Shell is used widely, according to the shape and size, the shell have different uses. The shell which is cute and translucent can be wear by stringing together. Especially in the hot summer, the shell will give people a sense of leisure elegant seashore vacation and cool feeling. It is suitable for the woman who love nature. A big fan-shaped shell can be pasted on walls or tables, it will have the decorative effect of leisure and relaxing, it will be cooler even on the hot summer day.rn.rnShell can be also stringed with the attractive beads, hanging as a portiere or curtain, it’s unique meaning will be showed perfectly, it will bring the Southeast Asia’s tropics scenery to family.rnrnThe shell is made into handicraft, such as animal or plant in various styles, all can bring people to enjoy strong appreciation.rnrnSome shells even can be made into tableware, like the fork, spoon and so on, placing on the dinner table, people will enjoy different sentiment.rnrnThe uses of the shell decoration are innumerable, only to discover, to build and to use attentively, can shell beautify our lives, and create infinite pleasantly surprised and happinessrnrnwww.aypearl.comengaged in wholesale jewelry.rnnull

What is the moonstone

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

rnMoonstone, Its name is derived from a visual effect, caused by light reflecting internally in the moonstone from layer inclusion of different feldspars.On the Asian continent, the pale lustrous blue color of the moonstone is considered to resemble moonlight. However, the best of the blue moonstones are washed up by the tides when the Sun and the Moon are in a particular heavenly and harmonious relationship, which occurs every twenty one years. This event gives rise to the saying that denotes a lengthy period of time - “Once in a Blue Moon”.rnwholesale jewelryrnrnMoonstone is considered as the most powerful fertility crystals. It supports women’s connection to the Goddess and the moon, soothes and heals the emotions and mind. Moonstone is also a good luck stone, especially for lovers.rnrnrnFrom South east Asia to Europe, the moonstone is associated with love and was worn to attract a lover. It prevents young child from night terrors, protect travelers at night and on the sea, and advances women’s wisdom.rnrnrnMoonstone is said to beneficial for women’s health, and moonstone jewelry is very much loved by women.rn rnTags: moonstone crystals moonstone jewelryhandmade jewelryrnnullrnrn