Jewelry Designers Virginia

Nevada Black Opal
The rarest and most valuable opals are bright on black. Black background opals show off the rainbows of fire, or play

Spodumene
Spodumene is a fairly recent discovery in gemstone terms and in part still remains a collector's stone. But don't let

Jade
Jade is a gemstone with two incarnations - one abundant, the other a rare precious gem. Yet both jadeite and nephrite

Boulder Opal
Boulder opal is precious opal that has a sandstone or ironstone base.

Alexandrite
Alexandrite is a transparent gemstone with a remarkable colour-change property: it appears leaf green in daylight and

Precious Jelly Opal
This is a semiblack or jelly opal.

Shell
You can saw it, file it, carve it, drill it and engrave it: shell is one of the easiest of materials to work with.