Red and Black Stone Necklace | Red Carnelian, Black Spinel, Spotted Chalcedony Beaded Necklace | Hand Knotted Gemstone Necklace

Classy Gemstone Pendant Beaded Necklace

A timeless and fascinating necklace with designer gemstone beads hand knotted onto silk cord. Black Spinel, Carnelian and Spotted Chalcedony combine fabulously in color and quality all finished with a vintage antique silver box clasp. Length measures ~18 in.

The Narrow Hem offers lifetime repairs on this product, you will just need to pay the cost to ship materials back to me.

Gemstones Used

Chalcedony has been admired since antiquity. Normally pure and translucent of many different colors, it's also found in a "spotted" form of matte earth tones. This exquisite stone has been worn for thousands of years for its stunning beauty and fabled powers to protect the wearer from weakness, melancholy and fevers. In Tibet, this stone was believed to be a symbol of the Lotus flower leading to deeper self awareness. This fibrous aggregate quartz crystal is at once beautiful and calming and will certainly earn the wearer many compliments!

Carnelian dates back to the Bronze Age, circa 1800 BC, on the island of Crete. Romans believed it to be a stone of courage giving confidence and strength. Ancient Egyptians placed carnelian stones on mummies to assist the dead in their journey to the afterlife. Alchemists in the Middle Ages boiled carnelian with other stones to release their energies. Carnelian is a variety of chalcedony, a microcrystalline quartz. It is formed from the intergrowth of two silica minerals with differing crystal structures: quartz and moganite. Carnelian appears in a vibrant range of fire-orange reds to brown-reds The reddish tints in the translucent stone are due to one of its ingredients: iron oxide. Carnelian is most commonly found in India, Brazil, Siberia and Germany.