Jade is a very colorful and durable material that can be easily worked into multiple shapes and Polished to a much higher luster than other gemstones which is why jade jewelry is so popular including its use in Jade pendants, Jade necklaces , Jade bracelets , Jade rings, and Jade earrings. These jade jewelry items are usually made with a solid gemstone mixed with other precious metals, diamonds, silver, and gold.
Jade is also used to make small sculptures, religious artwork, and ornaments in addition to regular jade jewelry that you see in the store. In places like Europe and the United States emeralds, sapphires, diamonds, and rubies are just a few gemstones that remain more popular than Jade. But in other areas of the world like China, Jade is one of the most precious gemstones. For thousands of years, Jade has been the most popular gemstone in China. Chinese Emperors waged war and traded with distant people in order to acquire the best specimens.
They remain a very important material for religious art and our Incorporated in gifts given during birthdays, marriages, and anniversaries. Historically carved Jade pendants were worn the same as we wear jade jewelry today only they were intended to be protective talismans.
Masks crafted from Jade and incense burners carved from Jade have been found in association with religious ceremonies ranging from ancient China to Mesoamerica. Throughout history, people have credited Jade with healing things from nightmares to kidney stones. Jade brings with it the energy of prosperity, new beginnings, and health.
The Jade stone is often seen as a representation of Purity or purification. It's also a stone that offers protection and supports Vitality, abundance, and heart energy. Another meaning for Jade is that of gentleness, Harmony, and balance. Today, Jade jewelry brings with it a mix of modern designs with antique jewelry designs.
Traditional Jade Bangles remain a staple of jade jewelry making and often incorporate other beads or materials like gold. Chinese jade jewelry represents a rich cultural heritage and it typically includes nephrite and jadeite. Once a jade boulder or rock is found, it is considered raw Jade. Raw jade hasn't been manufactured or subject to any manufacturing process yet.
It also hasn't been made into jewelry like a Jade bracelet or Jade rings. The larger stones that are recovered from mines around the world usually have the opaque outer layer and that small window through which the interior is verified. Jewelry makers will see the high-quality Jadeite through that window and then have to negotiate based on what they can see. Once the stone has left the market, it takes someone with years of experience to use the proper tools to carve the stone.
If the stone is higher-quality Jadeite, carvings usually are simple. The Jade jewelry you get with higher-quality Jadeite is going to be equally simple. The reason being, a high-quality stone deserves to be preserved as much as possible, keeping the body of the stone and letting the stone speak for itself.
More intricate carving techniques can take advantage of different colorations especially in Jade that isn't the emerald green color but might have a variety of colors in one stone. Depending on what the final product will be, cabochons can be cut from the material, effectively round stones that can then be placed into jewelry like Jade Rings, jade necklace pendants, Jade bracelets, or other materials.
China is the leading polishing Center for jadeite which usually comes from cutting factories in Myanmar. Many Cutters in Myanmar still polish jadeite using a hollow bamboo lathe that is treated with a mixture of water and sand.
Manufacturers for jade jewelry can carve hololiths which are taken from a single piece of rough Jade into a pendant, bangle, or Jade ring. But cabochons are used for rings and other jade jewelry.
When you are buying cabochons, you want to look at the proportions, the thickness, and the symmetry of the Jade.
If you are purchasing Jade bracelets or Jade necklaces that are made from round Jade beads, you want to look for matching transparency, size, and symmetrical cuts. All of these are used to produce higher quality jade jewelry. Shop our Jade Jewelry Collection Here. In Reply to Aarons Mueller, Thank you for your knowledge we appreciate it and value your opinion. We would like to assure you, our Jade collection is of quality and has been authenticated by Jade Craftsman with parallel to your collector years.
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Sorry to say, I believe that many of the pieces you are showing are dyed. Real jade with fake color. While the article is interesting I think it misses the real story of jade culture. You are not alone in missing the nuance, it is rarely if ever centered upon in articles on jade.
My advice to buyers is to focus on the carving and craftsmanship first. In this way you will enjoy every piece you buy. The Chinese started importing jadeite from Myanmar in about In China, jade is so valued that gifts made from jade are given at birthdays, weddings, and other celebrations.
Fine-grained jadeite, with a rich, green colour, is considered the most important and rare type of jade and can cost more than diamonds. Traditionally the best jade was submitted to the Imperial court for consideration. The Empress Cixi or Tzu Hsi ruled China from to and was known to be a collector of the finest jade pieces.
As a result, Chinese carvers called this type of jade imperial jade. By far the largest Australian nephrite jade deposit is found at Cowell, in South Australia. It was discovered in by a local farmer who found a kg boulder of nephrite near an outcrop of white marble. There were several different owners of the deposit from through to In , the South Australian Government evaluated the deposit, and a trial mining program began in Source: Wikimedia Commons. He is carrying a jade club and wearing a jade ornamental pendant, called a hei-tiki.
Jadeite and nephrite are only found in metamorphic rocks, formed in current or ancient subduction zones. Jadeite is found in rocks that formed under higher pressure than nephrite. Most known deposits of jadeite occur along, or near faults in serpentinites. In Australia, nephrite is mostly found as long lenses, within marble of Early to Middle Proterozoic age - million years ago. There are no known occurrences of jadeite in Australia, but Australia is a major world producer of nephrite, mostly from the Cowell deposit.
At Cowell, there are over occurrences within an area equivalent to a large suburb about 10 km 2. These rocks originally contained about 80 tonnes of nephrite. There have been unconfirmed reports of nephrite jade occurrences from the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
The objects are then dried and dipped into molten wax. The wax fills any surface-reaching pores and fractures. When the objects have cooled, excess wax is removed and the objects are buffed to a bright luster.
Type B jadeite objects have been bleached by soaking in hydrochloric or sulfuric acid. The acid removes oxidation stains and leaches out sodium. This lightens the color of many materials. Pressure is then used to impregnate the jadeite with wax or a clear polymer resin. Impregnation fills all surface-reaching pores and fractures and gives the object an improved smoothness, luster and color.
Unfortunately, the appearance of Type B jadeite objects can begin to deteriorate in just a few years. Acid treatment makes some jadeite brittle, and polymer resins can discolor with time or exposure to heat and sunlight. Because of these problems, Type B jadeite treatment should always be disclosed when an object is sold, but many items are sold without disclosure.
This lack of disclosure is because Type B jadeite objects normally sell for a small fraction of the price paid for a similar Type A object. Sellers often get away with nondisclosure because Type B treatments are difficult to detect. Testing at a gemological laboratory is often required for detection of Type B treatments. Type C jadeite usually has all of the treatments of Type B jadeite, but the object has also been dyed to a more desirable color. The dyes can fade over time or with exposure to heat and light.
For these reasons, Type C treatments should always be disclosed. Dye treatment can often be detected by examination with a microscope, spectroscope or gemological filters, but this testing should not be needed - the seller should disclose the full extent of treatment for every object that is sold.
Type C objects should be purchased for a price that assumes temporary use for a few years. Anyone who spends the serious money on jade should know the difference between jadeite and nephrite, have a good knowledge of jadeite treatments, how they impact value, and how they impact future durability and appearance. Confirmation of the jadeite type by a gemological laboratory is a good idea for expensive items.
These services are easy to obtain and usually cost a tiny fraction of what is paid for a Type A jadeite item. A "misnomer" is an incorrect name. In the gemstone trade many misnomers have been given to materials that look like a more popular or more valuable material even though that name is incorrect.
The use of a misnomer can be innocent or derogatory, but the intent is often to associate a product with one that is much more popular or more valuable. Even when done without deceptive intent, the practice can be confusing or misleading to many buyers. An example of a jade misnomer is the use of the name "Mexican jade" for the green-dyed calcite or travertine that is commonly used to produce vases, chess pieces, desk sets and other ornamental objects.
Use of the name by a seller in the presence of potential customers can be misunderstood or deceptive. In those guides they state that the use of an incorrect varietal name can be "misleading", "unfair", and "deceptive". Today sellers who continue using these incorrect names could face legal action.
For more information, see our article about "green amethyst" and "yellow emerald". A few of the many jade misnomers are listed below. New Zealand Greenstone: These boulders, harvested from glacial outwash on the South Island of New Zealand, were originally called "Pounamu" by the local Maori people, then "greenstone" a literal translation by European explorers.
They are actually nephrite jade. They were used by the Maori for making tools and weapons. Pieces with an attractive color or pattern were used to make ornaments and fashioned into pendants. Public domain image by Sarang. People have used jade for at least , years. The earliest objects made from jade were tools. Jade is a very hard material and is used as a tool because it is extremely tough and breaks to form sharp edges. Most jade does not have a color and translucence that is expected in a gemstone.
However, when early people found these special pieces of jade, they were often inspired to craft them into a special object. Early toolmakers took advantage of these properties of jade and formed it into cutting tools and weapons. It was used to make axes, projectile points, knives, scrapers, and other sharp objects for cutting. Translucent Green Jade: A translucent green jade cabochon with beautiful color, set into a gold ring and surrounded by small diamonds.
Jade is a durable, colorful material that can be worked into shapes and given a high polish. These properties make it a very desirable gemstone. Jade has been used to make a variety of jewelry items such as pendants, necklaces, rings, bracelets, earrings, beads, cabochons , tumbled stones , and other items.
These jewelry items are often made of solid jade, combined with other gems, or placed in settings made from gold , silver , or other precious metals. In addition to jewelry, jade is used to make small sculptures, ornaments, religious art, and small functional objects.
Commonly Confused With Jade: Pictured here are four gems commonly confused with jade. From top left and going clockwise they are chrysoprase, maw sit sit, serpentine, and hydrogrossular garnet. They have a color, luster, and translucence that is known to occur in jade.
A number of other minerals and materials that are commonly cut and polished are easily confused with jade. All of these materials can have a color, luster, and translucence that is very similar to jade - so similar that the average person is unable to recognize them.
These materials are often used to manufacture cabochons, beads, and other objects in the same style as jade. They sometimes enter the market with and without disclosure.
They are often marked with the name "jade" or with one of many misnomers. Chalcedony is a translucent variety of microcrystalline quartz that occurs in a range of colors similar to jade.
Chrysoprase is a bright green chalcedony colored by chromium that, when cut into cabochons, beads, and small sculptures, will look very similar to jade.
Chalcedony occurs in a variety of other translucent colors such as black, lavender, yellow, and orange that can look like the color varieties of jade. Chalcedony can be a very close gemstone look-alike with jade. It can be differentiated from jade using is lower specific gravity and by a variety of instrumental methods. Serpentine occurs in a variety of wonderful translucent to nearly transparent green and yellowish green colors that look very much like jade.
It is a metamorphic mineral that is often found in the same geographic areas and same types of rocks as jade. Serpentine is significantly softer than jade and also has a much lower specific gravity. Vesuvianite has a color and a greasy luster that fool unknowing people into thinking it is nephrite. Vesuvianite , also known as idocrase, is another jade look-alike that is very difficult to distinguish from jade without laboratory testing.
It has similar hardness , specific gravity, and physical appearance. Vesuvianite is not nearly as tough as jade and will break more easily - but that requires destruction of the specimen.
Maw Sit Sit is a rock composed of jadeite, albite, and kosmochlor a mineral related to jadeite. It has a bright chrome-green color and accepts a bright polish. For those reasons it is used as a gemstone. Maw sit sit was first properly identified in near the village of Maw Sit Sit in northwestern Burma in the foothills of the Himalayas.
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