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Find 1000 excellent garnets along this road.
Before I became a jeweler (and used garnets in my work) I worked as a tour leader in Pakistan and China. With a very old
Before I became a jeweler (and used garnets in my work) I worked as a tour leader in Pakistan and China. With a very old
Zircon is not Zirconia and there are a lot of mix-ups. In this blog, we focus on the Zircon, the birthstone of December, (together with
The gemstone turquoise, the birthstone of December, is a very popular gemstone. Not only nowadays but also in the past. But why do we think
The gemstone Citrine is a precious little sun under the gemstones. It is the birthstone of November and who does not need a little sunbeam
To discover tanzanite is a moment I never forget! One day, a few years back we travel to Canada and stop at a shopping mall,
This gemstone is the birthstone of November. And to be honest, that fact was a long time the only certainty we had when we talk
Jewelry exists since women want to look different, and more beautiful than other women. And since men wear jewelry to express their power and physical
My mother loved gemstones. She even got from my father a ring and 12 little gemstone balls, which she could add to the ring, one
In the 1970s I spend some weeks in Morocco, to finish the research for my thesis. My professor asked me to stay since a new
This is a tempting title, isn’t it? Do you know the almandine gem? And did you know it has regeneration features? Well, I didn’t before
In the 1970s, my father was offered the opportunity to open a small jewelry shop next to his regular jewelry store. Since I wanted to
Sardonyx is not very well known in our time. Our predecessors loved this gemstone and attributed all kinds of good qualities to it. Even Cleopatra
In the 1990s, already very interested in jewelry and in particular Yemenite jewelry, I was a tour leader in Yemen, a stunning country between Saudi
Traveling around the world and looking for the best gemstone beads to buy, you cannot avoid India. The gemstones found there, the high-quality cutters of
You have no idea how sneaky secrets jewelry can be. Normally you wear your jewelry to draw a lot of attention and get all the
ABRACADABRA… Who was the first to make goldstone? You will find out in this blog! You have gemstones, that are made of minerals. And you
Do you know the proverb ‘speech is silver, silence is golden’? It means that you better can keep your mouth shut. Anyway, that is what
Last week I receive a necklace from an old friend in the post, a very dirty necklace of which the owner definitely needs some advice
It is a long tradition to eat eggs with Eastern, to celebrate the start of Spring. But the tradition in Russia to decorate chicken eggs
When you start making jewelry you choose the type of designs and your material. And after that choice, you try to enlarge your expertise in
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