Taking a jade bangle e.g. it comes in different color, carved or not carved and sometimes its gold jade pendant and other designs such as bracelets, necklaces, jade bangles and other handmade jewellery .
Beside of functioning as a body decoration item jadeite has a mythical aura
built up over thousands of years when in it was used in China as ritual stone in various forms, carving and functions. Most items are Burma jade since the country has the best quality of the green stone which is jadeite, there is a lesser quality which is nephrite.
But it's not only for jewellery jadeite and nephrite is used, artists create sculptures one of the most popular is a jade Buddha. Various colors are available such as lavender, white, green, blue and almost the whole range of the rainbow, blue jade is mainly found in Central America notably Guatemala and Honduras even the old Maya and Olmecs used it as body decoration and for ritual purposes.
Carved jade items come in all variants such as amulets, pendant
and bangles jewelry usually depicting a Buddha image.
Chinese jade jewelry is very popular as jade bangle,
jade ring, jade necklace, jade bracelet, jade pendant and other jade carvings. Blue jade is found in Guatemalan and Honduran jade shops, already the Maya and Olmecs made blue jade jewelry.
Jade jewellery store are in the Internet but by far the best are at the Bogyoke Market
in Yangon Myanmar they also do wholesale. The items are relatively low priced unless someone is searching for real unique pieces of imperial jade with deep green colors and a beautiful and mysterious translucency.
