{"title":"Protection","description":"\u003cp\u003eTo carry a closed door.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFive pieces, built on sapphire, agate, topaz and garnet. Sapphire is the second-hardest thing on earth and it decided to be the colour of the sky; it went into bishops' rings and travellers' clasps for exactly that reason. Agate is named after a Sicilian river that ran out of it, and was cut into eyes and worn facing outward. Swiss blue topaz is here for the piece that is meant to be seen coming. Garnet went with people who were going somewhere at night.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRings, necklaces and sets in 925 sterling silver, made after you order.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/the-codex\/turquoise-meaning-history\"\u003eTurquoise: six thousand years of being carried →\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":"green-agate-bird-butterfly-ring","title":"The Flight Itself — Green Agate Bird \u0026 Butterfly Ring","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIt is the stone of being able to prove it.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is a river in Sicily that has been renamed at least four times. Around 300 BC it was called the Achates, and a Greek called Theophrastus — Aristotle's student, the first person we know of who tried to write a serious book about rocks — recorded that a banded stone was being pulled out of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe named the stone after the river. Agate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe river is now the Dirillo and has almost no agate left in it. The name outlived the supply by two thousand three hundred years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore it was jewellery it was administration. In Mesopotamia agate was carved into cylinder seals, rolled across wet clay to sign a contract. Rome kept the habit and put it into signet rings — a stone hard enough to take a carving, and hard enough that the carving would not soften after ten thousand pressings. When a Roman pressed an agate into wax, the point was not decoration. The point was that this could not be faked.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt is the stone of being able to prove it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe banding is real geology, not pattern-making: chalcedony laid down in the cavity of a lava bubble, one microscopically thin layer at a time, each one recording a slightly different chemistry in the water that made it. You are looking at a sediment log. It just happens to be beautiful.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eI chose green agate here because the silver work is already busy — a bird, a butterfly, leaves — and a loud stone would have turned it into an argument. The agate sits underneath all of it and holds still.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e925 sterling silver with gold plating on the wings and leaves, so the two metals do the work the stone is not asking to do. The band is open, which means a little forgiveness in the fit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePosted to you tracked. 5–10 days to the UK.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis one takes the longest at the bench of anything in the first collection, because every leaf edge is finished by hand and there is nowhere to hide a rushed one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eMaterials\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNatural green agate — 3.5×7 mm marquise, 4×6 mm oval and pear, 3×3 mm round\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNano emerald-green accent stones — laboratory-grown, not mined emerald\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e925 sterling silver with gold plating\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOpen band — adjusts a little\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFree UK delivery · 5–10 days\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCarried for centuries as a stone of steadiness and of proof. Some people feel something. Some don't. 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Only diamond is harder, and diamond is a long way off at 10 — but nothing else in ordinary life comes near. \u003cstrong\u003eSecond-hardest thing on earth, and it decided to be the colour of the sky.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMedieval clergy noticed. Sapphire became the stone of the ecclesiastical ring — heaven's colour on the hand of somebody who was meant to be pointing at it. Pope Innocent III fixed it in the twelfth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSri Lanka has been supplying them for over two thousand years. Ratnapura — the name means city of gems — sits on gravel beds that Marco Polo wrote about and that men still work in pits by hand, standing in water, sieving.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth pieces here are birds, in silver with gold-plated wings, set with blue sapphire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI put a ring and earrings together because a bird alone reads as an ornament and a pair reads as a pair — which is different, and better.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sapphires are natural. Like the overwhelming majority of sapphire sold anywhere in the world, they are heat-treated: standard, permanent, disclosed, and practised since antiquity. Untreated sapphire of good colour exists and is priced for collectors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e925 sterling silver with gold plating. 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They were staff. The belief was practical to the point of being domestic: the dead go on keeping house, and a house without a dog at the gate is not a finished house.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo thousand years later they come out of the ground still standing in the same position.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHan families were buried with pottery dogs so that somebody would still be watching the gate.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eXu, the eleventh earthly branch, is the double hour from seven until nine in the evening. The hour the door gets shut. Everyone is home or they are not coming.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe dog is gold and mid-stride, head up, and there are butterflies drifting through the circle around it. The opal is set plainly on the far side.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eButterflies with a guard dog is an odd pairing and it is the reason I like this one. Loyalty in the sign is not the same thing as being fixed in place. The dog is moving and it is still watching.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe metal is solid 925 sterling silver. 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It is copper carbonate, which is where the green comes from, and it is softer than quartz — keep it away from grit. Offered as folklore, which is what it is.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe dig\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWho gets access to me that I never actually agreed to?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe download\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI accept that a boundary is not a punishment.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnswer the question before you put the bracelet on. Say the sentence as you fasten it. 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