Natural Lavender Jade Jewelry Jadeite Stone.

Usually its white jade with lavender colored parts. Since most fine jadeite comes from Burma beautiful objects such as Buddha statues, bangles, pendants and other can be seen on a larger scale at the Bogyoke market in Yangon, the premier jade market in the world.

The is also a biannual emporium at the new capital Naypyidaw, the emporium for Myanmar precious stones was held at Yangon before.

One of the great thing with Jade is its not an exclusive and rare item, all this depends at the composition of the jadeite, at the market there are jade bangle for $ 6,- and others for $ 3000,-. Naturally there is quite a difference in color (deep green is Imperial Jade und very expensive) texture, are there cracks, is there translucency and so on. At a market like the Bogyoke Aung San Market some creative jewelry is on display, in the past designs were very conservative which is changing partly into trendy jewelry designs.

At a jewelry shop natural items

are demanded. In general its quite conservative jewelry design since the main buyer are Chinese women over 40 who have some money to

spend, younger ladies usually buy lower priced items such as bangles, bracelets, necklaces and pendants. Because more and more Chinese people have money to spend Jade demand is growing rapidly which brings in crooks who try to make quick money with fake and manipulated items. These crooks are almost exclusively Chinese who put below average quality items into acid and get resins under high pressure into the stone. The jewelry items look good when sold but after, around 3 years they are just rubbish which becomes very important to understand at least a bit how to identify quality, first rule is take a magnifying lens and torch light with this basic tools plenty of fake items already can be identified if its natural authentic or not.

Highly polished lavender jade

with intense colors and a good value of translucency is highly priced. This type of jadeite is also often used for bigger items such as a Jade Buddha Sculpture since the prices are still in a manageable region those bigger items cant be done with imperial jade or other top green jadeite since the prices will be simply to high. That's one of the reason why Buddha statues from over about 40cm height are mostly done in white and lavender jade.

The best place to have a look for lavender jade jewelry, statues, sculptures and other is the Bogyoke Market in Yangon. See the picture below it gives a good idea what is available there and there is much more. Lavender jade is together with white the material often used for bigger sculpturing but not only.

Myths are surrounding jade such as stone of heaven,

stone of immortality and sometimes living stone which comes because the longer jade is worn on the body the more the color changes which simply is a result of sweat and other circumstances around the skin but superstition is always with us and probable the highest level of it is with Chinese people. So what about a great lavender jade Buddha? Usually people

Lavender Jade Buddha, Burmese jade.

relate jade and green, the Chinese built up a dictionary of more than hundred definitions of green, this sounds like green nature and snow, certain vegetable and green, the sky, the sea and so on. Green is the most common but other colors such as lavender jade, white, pink brown and variants of red are at on display in the shops. It is easy to find the right jades color to match skin tones plus clothing you wear another idea could be to go with the season, means winter cooler tones summer warmer. Have a quick look at your wardrobe, it’s easy to figure out which color you prefer and since jade colors are over the whole spectrum the right match is not far away.

Unfortunately most people only want green jade since this is the most popular but there are beautiful other colors. Lavender, blue, pink, purple, rose and other could be just the right stuff. Since it is not very easy to find these colors in all qualities go online and search around. If it once coincidently happen that you are on tour through Asia or live there do a stopover in Myanmar, Yangon is

Jade Jewelry Bangle, jade gemstone, jadeite.

the center of gravity in the world for jadeite, stones, objects, Jade Buddhas and jewelry.

Also rubies, lapis, sapphires plus the whole assortment of semi precious stones are available there, great deals could be made since this is the sources at Bogyoke Market Yangon.

As with jade jewelry

and other precious stones certain minerals and impurities

Lavender Jade Jewelry

penetrated the stone over millions of years when the earth was still formed under immerse heat and pressure. Chromium add forms the best imperial green. The result is, almost any color is available, blue is mainly found in today Guatemala and Honduras, all other top quality jade stone always come from upper Burma or northern Myanmar. Actually jade is mined worldwide, but most

found is the lower grade form which is nephrite, in Myanmar jadeite is mined, that’s the “good stuff” in the stone. Jade is always related to China and when their deposits got exhausted they were searching for other supply, northern Burma started to deliver jade stone, these deposits were known to the Chinese since hundreds of years because in a short period in history this was Chinese territory.

Finally jadeite is better than nephrite

anyway since it has better shiny colors and is much harder. The colors, notably imperial green, but also lavender, blue, brown, red and pink are the most sought after colors.

Natural Lavender Jade, natural jade stone

In general, when buying jade jewelry ask the seller to go with you outside the shop into normal light, the lights in the shops don't show the real color, this is also very relevant in any high end jewelry shop, they have special lighting which let the items look much better than in normal daylight. There are a couple of great jadeite shops in Singapore as seen at the pictures.

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