#semi precious stones

[salomedebeaurepaire]

The impressive beauty of malachite furniture made in the 18th-19th century :

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[icecreamwithjackdaniels]

Kevin Sloan (American, b. 1958), "Gift of the Storm"

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[thatshowthingstarted]

Sword (jian) and scabbard, probably made in the court workshops of the Yongle Ming Emperor. Chinese, Ming Dynasty, early 15th century.

The hilt is of gilt iron. The grip is of gibbous rectangular section, punched with small circles to imitate ray skin. Down the centre of the front is a raised spine bordered by tiny flames at either side.

The pommel is of trilobed form, bordered at the front and rear by bands of golden scrolls. The front panel of the pommel is chiselled and fretted with a dragon surrounded by interlacing flames, with triple claws on each paw. At the rear of the pommel, the central panel is decorated with a monster mask (kirtimukha), surmounted by a silvered crescent and golden disc, and with human hands, also surrounded by flames. At either side of the pommel are the Eight Buddhist Emblems of Good Augury (ba jixiang): the wheel of law (dharma), the standard, the treasure jar, the pair of fish, the endless knot, the lotus, the parasol and the conch shell of victory.

The guard is embossed in the form of a monster mask, surmounted by a silvered crescent and golden disc. The face is punched with circles, the canine teeth silvered, the eyebrows and whiskers chiselled and gilt. The horns are in the form of crab claws. At either side of the mouth is a paw in the form of a human hand. The head is surrounded by scrolling curls of mane. The rear of the guard is rendered as the underside of the jaw, with a set of silvered teeth, and a narrow beard running into a throat of alternate silvered and gilt bands.

The blade is associated but is probably a later replacement of Tibetan manufacture. It is formed of pattern-welded steel, of diamond section, straight and double edged. The pattern welding produces a mirrored pattern of addorsed crescents at either side of the medial ridge. The tang is of rectangular section, tapering towards the pommel, with a large expanded peg-hole towards the end. The edges have been ground and sharpened.

The scabbard is of wood covered in green stained leather and bound with gilt iron. At the throat is a V-shaped cut out at the front for seating the blade, and a scalloped cut-out in the leather to accommodate the guard. The throat retains traces of the scarlet silk with which it was lined. The iron binding comprises a long, facetted strip running all the way round either edge.

There are eight transverse bands at the rear, the uppermost and fourth of which are wider than the others, and extend round the front of the scabbard forming suspension loops. The edging strip has four main facets, with an additional narow facet at either side. It is decorated with scrollwork in gold running down each facet, and matching that on the pommel. At either end is a set of three golden lotus leaves.

The front panel is divided stylistically into upper and lower sections. The upper section is decorated quite plainly; a series of five beaded transverse bands divide it into six sections, and there are three vertical bands of fretted four-petalled rosettes in each section.

At the throat is a cusped section with a beaded border, below which is a band of flames. The ornate lower section has six smaller segments, divided vertically and horizontally by fretted 'vajras', each with a 'yinyang' symbol in the central knop. The half-'vajras' at either side emanate from the heads of lions, and the vertical bands of decoration at either side are formed by rows of flames.

Above and in the middle of these divisions are two square panels, each containing a cusped lozenge shaped central medallion, the corners decorated with interlacing flames. The uppermost of these two panels contains two dragons intertwined amid flames, with the heads at top right and bottom left; the lower has two similar dragons, with thicker bodies, and with their heads confronted at the left and right.

The chape section is decorated with a large panel of interlacing flames, within a beaded border. At the rear of the scabbard, the upper band is decorated with alternating gold and silver scrollwork, and terminates in a rosette at the front. The next two narrow bands are decorated with silver scrollwork only. The fourth is decorated at the rear like the top one, but is extended accross the front in a broad band; it is chiselled with four medallions decorated with gilt characters on silver grounds, and surrounded by interlacing gilt flames. The three lower bands are decorated in gold scrollwork.

The rear chape panel has a small, flat piece of rather coarse, scrolling interlace at the bottom, and narrow bands of petalled rosettes at either side.

A four character Tibetan inscription on the lower suspension loop reads 'khi'u ga ral gri' (honourific sharp sword).

China, 15th century (About 1420),

Leather, Ferrous, Gold, Silver, Semi-precious stone, Silk, Wood,

Dimensions:

Blade Length: 30 inches

Overall (sword) Length: 35 inches

Courtesy: Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds, United Kingdom

Sword (jian) and scabbard, probably made in the court workshops of the Yongle Ming Emperor. Chinese, Ming Dynasty, early 15th century.

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[opossums-in-a-trenchcoat]

My brother and I got a rock advent calendar to share!!!

These are the ones I got so far. The first day I got a big sodalite. (My brother got amazonite yesterday that’s roughly the same size)

Today I got a little baby! It’s red agate I think

#rocks #rocks rocks rocks #i love rocks #red agate #agate #sodalite #advent calendar #crystals #semi precious stones #austism #special interest #autistic special interest #holidays #holiday #christmas #christmas time #crystal collection

[your-fav-rocks]

Submitting a character:

Submit a character through the ask box from one of the following fandoms, and we will assign them 1-3 rocks!

Just Roll With It (Riptide, Prime Defenders, Apotheosis, Blood in the Bayou, The Suckening)

MCYT (Dsmp, Hermitcraft, Life Series, Empires, Origins SMP)

Minecraft (general mobs)

Riordanverse (Percy Jackson, Heroes of Olympus, Magnus Chase)

Sanders Sides

Stardew Valley

Musicals (Be More Chill, Six, Dear Evan Hansen, Heathers, Ride the Cyclone, Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals, Nerdy Prudes Must Die, Hamilton)

Homestuck

Warriors

Pokémon

Generation Loss

Madoka Magica

Wings of Fire

Undertale & Deltarune

Rules & Guidelines

We post twice a day! At 11:00 AM and 3:00 PM CT!

Don’t submit a character twice! If your ask isn’t answered, we probably haven’t gotten to you yet! Be patient, we’ve got busy lives sometimes :>

DO submit more than one character! We encourage submitting two or three of your scrunglies, we thrive on submissions!

Keep submissions to the listed fandoms. The list may change over time, so don’t be too discouraged if not a ton of your fandoms are listed

Meet the mods!

Mod Amethyst - ayup B) I’ve got a special interest around rocks/semi precious stones so I thought this would be fun. He/it/they pronouns, @alttheloco

Mod Malachite - hello! i’m here too :3 i’m a witch and also had a years-long hyperfixation on steven universe (that still finds its way to pop back up on occasion) so i’m very much also qualified for this. he/she/they/it, @prizmpaws

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[leslie-redirects-here]

#polished stones #semi precious stones #witch #witchblr #witchy aesthetic #aesthetic #witchy #op #nature

[pinegreentea]

Ask me. Ask me what the prices were of these gems that I bought from small businesses and a vintage store. Literally can't make this up, so go ahead. Ask🤣

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[semipreciousgemstoneslabs]

Exclusive Blue Agate Gemstone Slabs

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[iambittythings]

First dragon offering for the Dragon people attending Furnal Equinox! Included some awkward construction process shots, since people find those neat. :)

This guy is magma/heat themed. His sister will be water/cool themed, using a beach stone.

If you'd like a beast, please check out the shop.

#furnal equinox #furnal equinox 2023 #my art #dragons #art doll #polymer clay art #miniatures #semi precious stones #fantasy

[priestessofthepoeticprophesy]

Some Gemstone Charm Bracelets I've Been Working On 💜💙🍄🧚

#bracelet #handmade #jewelry #cottagecore #magic mushrooms #fae #faerie #gemstones #semi precious stones #crystals #charms

[go-learn-esperanto]

Any crystals that you think are cool and that more people should know about?

Sorry for the late reply (I'm busy traveling) but yes!!! I don't have ground breaking totally unknown crystals for you but from my collection I will tell talk about some fun little rocks.

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Let's start with what is arguably my favourite crystal and it's a pretty underrated one;

iolite

Yes, that's where the Violet_Iolite username comes from (it's my username almost everywhere else besides here)

I have a polished and cut iolite which surprisingly might not be the most interesting form of this mineral. Iolite, or cordierite (the actual mineral name, iolite is the name used in the gem selling business) is a stone that depending on the side it can vary from a light yellow to a purple/blue. Mine is cut in a way where the blue is always the most visible but the sides have the slightest nod to the yellow. Some of the best raw forms will change between these two colours if you turn them around.

I will say the iolite names comes from the Greek ios, violet. So yes, my Minecraft username is something like Violet violet (stone).

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Next I will talk about fake crystals versus lab grown ones...

When I say a fake crystals I mean crystals that are sold as other ones when that's not what they are.

Lab grown gems are different in the way that they are chemically the same as natural gems found in nature. In case of diamonds for example is much better for the environment (and in some cases for the health of the miners) if you get a lab grown one. However not all gems are possible to produce in a lab, sometimes they're more expensive to produce in the lab and in cases of quartz based gems the natural gems are so common it isn't worth it.

I'm mentioning this because of the next gems I will show.

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Moonstone and sunstone.

Moonstones and sunstones are probably the gems that are most faked (turquoise too but at least turquoise is rare).

Moonstone is a type of light coloured stone (either white, sometimes pink) which has a very pretty blue glow (occasionally it gets a yellow one too) only in certain angles. Opaline (or opalite), a man made gem, is very commonly sold as moonstone however opaline is not even close to being moonstone. Opaline is translucent in a way moonstone isn't and it doesn't have the shine moonstone has. Opaline is a type of glass which commonly has dolomite and metal to make it the colour it is. It was actually made to copy opals so I don't really know why people try calling it moonstone.

Next is sunstone! Orange or brown in colour sunstone is not that special looking. If it's high-quality it will be more translucent and it might have some touches of sparkles but it's not usually something very strong. Our fake stone this time is Goldstone. Also a man made glass goldstone is made with copper.

There's a blue version of golstone which instead of having copper it has cobalt or manganese.

I have booth types of goldstone (the blue one is my favourite)

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One that is moderately well known but it's absolutely cool anyway:

Alexandrite

One I recommend you buy lab grown or you'll waste all the money you have. Alexandrite is super cool because depending on the type of light you shine on it the colour will change completely. My alexandrite when in LED light (the light that most lamps have nowadays) or natural light is green. When under incandescent light (old lamps) it gets completely pink. If you lived only under incandescent light you'd believe it to be a pink stone.

When under both types of light:

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Chalcopyrite (peacock)

Similar to pyrite but softer, with copper and and can tarnish with pretty colours chalcopyrite is a pretty cool metal. Wikipedia says it is "the most abundant copper ore mineral." So the copper you have in your cables is most likely from this mineral.

Chalcopyrite is in front and the pyrite (unfocused) is in the back of the picture.

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Bismuth

I could've actually gotten an ok priced natural bismuth but I decided that getting a bigger sized would probably be better. This one might be lab grown. I'm not sure. The lady that sold me didn't know where it was from. It is 100% heat treated either way, as heating it gives it the lovely colours it has. It is a metal and according to Wikipedia it is "both the most diamagnetic element and one of the least thermally conductive metals known."

So... The last two are actually metal and not crystal but they are cool rocks so it's fine either way.

#crystals #gems #semi precious stones #ask #long post

[firstpersonnarrator]

Color Symbolism: explained quickly using stones.

Taken from my reblog of a picture of Robert Sheehan wearing a long necklace full of stones in every color; via @robsclan

Discusses the benefits ascribed to all the colors in the rainbow, and a few that aren’t i.e. gold, brown, black.

Passing clear light thru a prism breaks it into its component colors of the rainbow, roygbiv. Random side note: Stones in these colors turn out to share the same attributes as the chakras. So reading this list is kind of an unexpected two-fer: stones & chakras.

Hey writers! There’s stuff for you below…

Where the chakras are on your body:

Each color matches your chakras, in the same order and everything.

Red: between your legs-basically your perineum // Orange: your sex organs (uterus for women and right where a uterus would be on a man) // Yellow: just below ribs // Green: heart and lungs // Blue: mouth and throat, brain // indigo: third eye-centered just above eyebrows // violet, purple, white, clear: the space in the air just above the top of your head-basically imagine having a halo and that’s your crown chakra.

The takeaway:

Hope this wasn’t boring or pointless. Takeaway: Clear quartz (or a diamond) of any size is the winner on every front universally // tiger eye and turquoise kick ass for business and luck // amethyst opens up your mind // selenite keeps you safe // I like malachite and lapis lazuli together for love and speaking your truth from the heart and head. // For writers: Lapis Lazuli and amethyst together are great for creativity, coming up with ideas, seeing the story in your mind’s eye, etc. If you have writer’s block, wear amethyst and/or clear quartz for inspiration, and maybe a tiger eye for accessing emotions, regaining motivation, success, and luck. // If somebody you don’t like is around and you can still feel it after they’re gone, making you want to shower the minute they left, grab a clear quartz to get rid of the residue in the air from their gross vibe. // Same thing for cleansing a new house and you don’t like burning sage (or can’t because you can’t figure it out, like me). // If you’re an empath, clear quartz cleans your mind of other people’s feelings; obsidian or hematite protects you from other people’s feelings like a shield; rose quartz cheers you up and makes you positive/happy/loving yourself again; selenite traps bad stuff and needs to be on your windowsill pretty frequently for emptying the trapped bad stuff out. Might as well just leave it there.

Hooray for rocks. And rainbows.

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[savageandwise]

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[uniquejewel]

Precious and Semi Precious Beads: Things You Need To Know before Buying

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[pinegreentea]

Hello does someone live in this cave? A little mousey perhaps? I just wanna be friends :) 🐻🐁

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[semipreciousgemstoneslabs]

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