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- Striking Red and Golden-Yellow Tiger Eye Necklace with Ornate Bali Focal Bead (YEL-025)
Striking Red and Golden-Yellow Tiger Eye Necklace with Ornate Bali Focal Bead (YEL-025)
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YEL-025
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These delicate Red and Golden-Yellow Tiger Eye Necklace natural stones are brilliant in the sunlight. The photos were taken in very bright sunlight to show the full chatoyancy (shimmer and glow) of the "Tiger Eye" colors.
About Tiger Eye:
Miriam seeks out stones that show the very finest of this shimmering feature. She photographs the finished jewelry in very bright sunlight to show the full chatoyancy (shimmer and glow) of each stone.
The colors of TIGER EYE:
TIGER EYE (or Tigers-eye) is available in a golden brown, reddish brown, and greenish brown. Another variety, called HAWKS EYE has a much darker bluish to black color. Miriam’s gorgeous Tigers Eye and Hawks Eye jewelry features stones, carved into smoothly polished spheres, triangles or rondelles, all patterned with natural bands and swirls. The striking optical effect, due to fibers in the stone, makes the surface appear to shimmer as the stone is rolled from side to side. The red version is gently heat treated to bring out the iron oxide that is a natural component of the stone. The blue stones are also heat treated to bring out the blue crocidolite fibers. These beautiful stones are found in the United States, Canada, Korea, China, Brazil, Namibia, India, and Burma.
- Necklace length is 18.5 inches.
- The focal point of the Necklace is an ornate handcrafted Silver Bali Bead that is 3/8-inches in diameter and round Tigers Eye natural stones measuring 0.25 inches in diameter.
- The barrel-shaped beads vary from 3/8 to 0.25 inches; some are faceted.
About Tiger Eye:
- These natural stones are known for their shimmering colors - or "chatoyancy."
- In gemology, chatoyancy (or chatoyance) is an optical reflectance effect coined from the French "chat oeil," meaning "cat's eye." Chatoyancy arises either from the fibrous structure of a material, as in Tigers Eye, or from fibrous inclusions or cavities within the stone, as in cat's eye chrysoberyl.
- The effect is similar to the sheen off a spool of silk, or the sun shining on a lovely lake - like a gentle, wavering reflection of color.
- For a gemstone to show this effect, it is carefully cut with the fibers or fibrous structures parallel to the base of the finished stone.
Miriam seeks out stones that show the very finest of this shimmering feature. She photographs the finished jewelry in very bright sunlight to show the full chatoyancy (shimmer and glow) of each stone.
The colors of TIGER EYE:
TIGER EYE (or Tigers-eye) is available in a golden brown, reddish brown, and greenish brown. Another variety, called HAWKS EYE has a much darker bluish to black color. Miriam’s gorgeous Tigers Eye and Hawks Eye jewelry features stones, carved into smoothly polished spheres, triangles or rondelles, all patterned with natural bands and swirls. The striking optical effect, due to fibers in the stone, makes the surface appear to shimmer as the stone is rolled from side to side. The red version is gently heat treated to bring out the iron oxide that is a natural component of the stone. The blue stones are also heat treated to bring out the blue crocidolite fibers. These beautiful stones are found in the United States, Canada, Korea, China, Brazil, Namibia, India, and Burma.
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