January — Garnet

Garnet is named after a fruit. Granatum — the pomegranate. Break one open and the reason is obvious: rows of dark red seeds packed under a hard skin, which is more or less what a garnet-bearing rock looks like when you split it.

It has been the January stone for as long as the modern list has existed, and it was buried with people for a long time before that.

Every piece here is set with natural garnet in solid 925 sterling silver.

Or the colour, at entry price: the January Month in Colour necklace → — gold-plated solid silver with a deep red baguette. That stone is cubic zirconia, not natural garnet, and we say so on the page.

The file on garnet →
All twelve months →