Jewelry Designers Connecticut

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.

Pearls produced by snails
pearls can form in sea snails and are extremely rare

Iris Agate/Rainbow Agate
An iridescent variety of agate - when silced into thin sections it exhibits all the colours of the spectrum.

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

Faceted Square Cuts
The second group of faceted cuts includes straight-sided girdle shapes: squares, rectangles, octagons, triangles,

Tanzanite and Zoisite
Within this species lies a gemstone of drama and intrigue that is considered, along with the sapphire, to be the finest

Semi Precious Gemstones
If a gemstone is not precious, or organic, or artificial…. then the odds are it’s a semi precious stone.