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What You Should Know About Colored Stone Jewelry
Colored stone jewelry became classic when, in 1912, a national jewelers association of the United States officially adopted a list of birth stone gems: garnet for January, amethyst for February, aquamarine for March, diamond for April, emerald for May, pearl for June, ruby for July, peridot for August, sapphire for September, opal for October, topaz for November and turquoise for December.
Back then, it wasn’t unusual for people to wear only their birthstones, but wearing such stone was more for improving the fortune of the wearer and to ward off back luck. Shamans also used birthstones to predict the future and to help in the healing of diseases. They were also used in religious ceremonies. Ancient people actually believed that power from planetary bodies could be transmitted to people through them. Astrologers also believed that the Zodiac stones of the Zodiac signs could transfer powers and superhuman gifts to the individuals who wear then.
These days, colored stone jewelry are a hot trend in fashion, and you can see women wearing them. The wearing of gemstones now have less to do with psychic powers, they are now worn to jazz up the general population’s fashion sense.
Untreated birthstones are by themselves beautiful, but technological advances have yielded different brilliant colors and shades. Now, wearing colored gemstone jewelry has little to do with reversing the tides of fortune – it’s now a matter of personal choice to wear them as a matter of fashion.
Most colored jewelry is either set in silver or gold. Perhaps the most dazzling of colored gemstones are the tourmaline. This gem group comes in more colors than any other gemstone group. Some tourmalines even come in more than one color in one stone.
The most notable varieties of the tourmaline are the electric blue Paraiba, red Rubellite, blue Indicolite, intensely green Chrome, the bi-colored tourmalines (with at least two colors in one stone), watermelon tourmaline (bi-color tourmaline that has green outer lay and a red core), the bright yellow Canary from Malawi, Cat’s Eyes, and the Color-Change tourmaline (which is green in daylight and red in incandescent light.
Other popular colored stones are the Blue Topaz, Rhodolite, Garnet, Emerald, Opal, Amethyst, Cultured Pearl, Pink Sapphire, Peridot, Ruby, Blue Sapphire, and Alexandrite. At online jewelry stores like
http://www.discountjewels.net you can find a wide variety of choices of these stones that are already set in rings, earrings, bracelets, and necklaces.
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