When buying a stone, you must definitely follow certain rules in order to buy the stone of your dreams, which will never disappoint. ⠀⠀⠀
Symbols for the Slavs were simply of great importance. It is the symbols that carried the main semantic meaning in both magical and priestly art.
Bright red stone, red gold, ornate design? You surely know. Our mothers and grandmothers wore such rings.
Zircon and cubic zirconia are completely different things, however they are constantly confused with each other.
Tourmalines have very interesting optical and physical properties: first, they have the effect of pleochroism - when the stone changes its color depending on the side from which you look at it.
Indigolite tourmaline is a quite rare type of tourmaline. It can be of the following hues: blue, dark blue, blue-green, bluish-black.
"Timur Ruby" aka "Khiraj-i-Alam" - "Tribute to the World" - is one of the most famous stones in history. In fact, it is, unfortunately, not a ruby, but a spinel, but this was found out only in 1851.
Zircon is a very interesting natural stone. It is actually one of the oldest materials on еру earth - Australian scientists have found samples of zircon that is 4.4 billion years old!
t's probably no secret to anyone that spinel is one of our favorite gemstones. We want to tell you why we love this stone so much.
In general the garnet mineral has been known since ancient times. Even the ancient Greeks and Persians made jewelry with it. The Romans named it «carbuncle», and the Greeks — «anthrax», in Russia it is also found in references as «worm» or «bechet».