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Mystic quartz is clear quartz with a titanium coating that splits one light into all of them at once — no ancient story there, just a hundred-year-old branch of optics sitting on your finger.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e925 sterling silver, made after you order, up to ten days.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/the-codex\/amethyst-meaning-history\"\u003eRead the file on amethyst →\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/the-codex\/what-stone-meaning-actually-means\"\u003eWhere these meanings actually come from — an honest account →\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"amethyst-black-rhodium-ring","title":"Night Amethyst — Black Rhodium Ring","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFor nine hundred years it was the stone you wore to be answerable.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmethyst means \"not drunken\". \u003cem\u003eA-methystos.\u003c\/em\u003e The Greeks cut wine cups from it and believed you could drink all night and keep your head, and the belief was so durable that it survived the Roman empire, the fall of Rome and the arrival of Christianity without anybody seriously checking.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe church kept it and changed what the sobriety was for. From the early middle ages, an amethyst was set in the ring a bishop wore, and it was kissed. Not a stone of pleasure denied — a stone of being clear-headed because people were relying on you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFor nine hundred years it was the stone you wore to be answerable.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd it was expensive. Until the 1700s amethyst sat with ruby, emerald and sapphire in the top rank of precious stones, priced accordingly, worn by people who could prove they mattered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen Brazil. Enormous deposits found in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and within a generation the price collapsed. The same stone, unchanged in every physical respect, went from cardinal's ring to something a schoolgirl could be given.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI think about that more than is probably healthy. Nothing about the stone moved. Only how many of them there were.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eI plated this one in black rhodium — dark metal, so the purple has to work for its attention — with gold on the leaves. It is the piece that keeps the first collection from being sweet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e925 sterling silver base, black rhodium and gold plating. Plating on a heavily-worn ring will thin at the contact points over years; that is what plating does, and a jeweller can redo it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePosted to you tracked — 5–10 days to the UK.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eMaterials\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNatural amethyst — 4×6 mm oval, 3×5 mm and 3×3 mm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNano emerald-green accent stones — laboratory-grown, not mined emerald\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e925 sterling silver, black rhodium and gold plated\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFree UK delivery · 5–10 days\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWorn for centuries to keep a clear head. Some people feel something. Some don't. 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Everyone worked this out eventually and nobody was willing to renumber the whole of Western mineralogy over it, so topaz kept a name it was never owed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor most of history topaz meant a golden stone. Imperial topaz, sherry-coloured, from Ouro Preto in Brazil — a town whose name means black gold, which is a coincidence I did not arrange.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow the honest part.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis blue did not exist before 1970.\u003c\/strong\u003e Natural blue topaz occurs, but it is pale and rare and almost none of it reaches a shop. Sky blue topaz is colourless topaz — abundant, cheap, entirely natural — that has been irradiated and then heated to bring the colour up. The process is fifty years old, standard across the industry, and regulated: irradiated gems are held until residual activity falls below legal limits before they can be sold. The colour is permanent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo this stone is natural, and this colour is ours. Both of those are true at once and I am not going to pick whichever one sells better.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA simple ring on purpose. One stone, a slim band, dark accent stones along the shoulder. Nothing to explain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e925 sterling silver. Posted to you tracked — 5–10 days to the UK.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the lowest prices in the collection, and the one I expect to sell most, and it is not the one I would call the least serious.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eMaterials\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNatural topaz — irradiated and heat-treated for colour, as is standard for blue topaz\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e925 sterling silver\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFree UK delivery · 5–10 days\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTopaz has been worn for centuries as a stone of clear thinking. 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Break one open — some are the size of a car, some the size of a fist — and every point in there is aimed at a centre that no longer has any space left in it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe purple is iron. A trace of it, caught in the quartz lattice and then hit by natural radiation from the surrounding rock over millions of years, which knocks the iron into a state that absorbs everything except violet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo the colour is damage. Radiation damage, held steady for eighty million years, and we find it beautiful.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA cave that has been filling itself in for eighty million years.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost of what you will ever see comes from Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil and from Artigas in Uruguay, either side of the same border, arguing gently about which side has the better colour. 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The film is a fraction of a wavelength thick, which means light bouncing off the top of it and light bouncing off the bottom of it interfere with each other, and the colour you see is that interference. Not a pigment. Not a dye. Geometry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is the same physics as a soap bubble, an oil slick on a wet road, and a beetle's back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe technique is from the 1990s and comes out of optical coating — the industry that makes camera lenses and telescope mirrors — which is a strange and rather lovely place for a gemstone to have come from.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt will wear. A coating on a ring that is worn daily for years will eventually thin at the points where it meets the world. I would rather you knew that at the start.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo: the stone is natural. The colour is engineered, and modern, and I like it anyway. There is a difference between a thing that pretends to be old and a thing that is simply new, and only one of those is dishonest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet with swiss blue topaz alongside it, in a cluster that catches light from several directions at once. It is the most straightforwardly sparkling piece in the collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e925 sterling silver. Posted to you tracked — 5–10 days to the UK.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eMaterials\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNatural quartz with a titanium surface coating (mystic quartz) — 8×10 mm oval and 6×9 mm pear\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNatural swiss blue topaz — 5×7 mm, 4×6 mm and 4×4 mm, colour-treated\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhite and smoky cubic zirconia accent stones\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e925 sterling silver\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFree UK delivery · 5–10 days\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNo folklore for this one. 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That is a stranger and better thing to wear than a race.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eI kept this one dark deliberately. The circle is blackened, the rat is gold, and the opal sits near the top like the one light somebody left on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe metal is solid 925 sterling silver. The gold is a plated finish over that silver and the dark sections are a black finish over the same silver — plating is a surface, it wears with time, the silver underneath does not.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePosted to you tracked. 5–10 days to the UK.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwelve pieces were modelled separately for this series — no shared body, no swapped heads — which is most of where the cost sits.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eMaterials\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNatural opal — 4 mm round\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNano black and white cubic zirconia accent stones — laboratory-made, not mined\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e925 sterling silver, gold plated, with a black finish on the dark sections\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePendant 25.49 mm across, on a box chain\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFree UK delivery · 5–10 days\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWorn in China for over two thousand years as the opening of the cycle. 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On Han dynasty tomb tiles she is painted with a human head, human arms, and a serpent's body below.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNobody drew that as horror. It was drawn as competence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhich is worth remembering, because the snake in the twelve signs has spent a long time being handed other people's baggage — mostly imported, mostly not Chinese. In the cycle itself the snake is not treacherous. It is the animal that gets out of its own skin on a schedule and keeps going.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe oldest maker in Chinese myth is drawn from the waist down as a snake.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSi, the sixth earthly branch, is the double hour from nine until eleven in the morning. Late enough that the day has a shape. 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Sunset — the hour the birds go in.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sign is not the crowing. The sign is the animal that knows what time it is, in both directions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is a second reason the rooster is everywhere in Chinese decoration, and it is a pun. The word for chicken sits very close to the word for auspicious. Whole categories of imagery in Chinese art exist because two words happen to sound alike, and once you know that, a great deal of what looks like symbolism turns out to be wordplay that stuck.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe rooster's own hour is not dawn. It is dusk.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlack circle, gold bird, and a rough black stone under its feet that has been left deliberately unpolished against everything else being finished.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe tail is the reason this one exists. 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