Mixed Gemstone and Metal Hand Knotted Charm Necklace

Mixed Gemstone and Metal Hand Knotted Charm Necklace

Metal tube and disc beads are hand knotted on waxed nylon cord and attached to a pendant featuring dainty little gemstone charms. Black Spinel, misty moonstone, spotted chalcedony, freshwater pearl, and a gold coated quartz crystal combine for a powerhouse of earthy colors and charming style. This mixed metal and gemstone designer piece will easily become one of your favorites with its fascinating combination of beauty and strength.

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!

Moonstone may have been confused with other crystals though it appears in Egyptian myth, medieval folk remedies for epilepsy, and is considered a magical gem in many cultures. 18th century mineralogy progressed enough to definitively categorize moonstone as a type of feldspar displaying a milky-white gleam. Major deposits are found in Sri Lanka, India, Brazil, USA and Madagascar. This prismatic crystal, revered across space and time for its universal appeal, is at once dreamy and intimate, much like the Moon itself!

Pearl, thought of and used as a precious gemstone for centuries, is actually a product of the animal kingdom. It is formed through sand entering between the shell and mantle of an oyster which then encapsulates the foreign body in layers of nacre. But it is far more mysterious than that. Found in ancient Hebrew Scriptures, a pearl of enormous cost, all you had, was equivalent to Wisdom. Also admired in ancient Egypt, India and Persia, pearls represented full female beauty and even the Romans dedicated the pearl to Venus, the Goddess of Love and Beauty.