"Chiaroscuro" bracelet - CAORLE THE SMALL VENICE Collection

NOTE

All our Milliondreams products are entirely hand-assembled in Italy, in Caorle. The stones and the steel parts make their imperfections a specific and natural feature.

MATERIALS

Composition in cotton thread with hook and adjustable chain approx. 16÷20 cm, nickel-free gold stainless steel, Botswana Agate + faceted Black Onyx + Sunstone + Pink Opal + Tiger's Eye

Stone diameter 3.5÷4 mm.

DESCRIPTION

In the western tradition the combination of pastel tones have a meaning of delicacy. This bracelet has been given a touch of grit thanks to the use of a color such as black (from the onyx) and brown (from the stone of the sun and from the Tiger's Eye).

Elegance for the unmistakable Milliondreams ethnic style. This bracelet will give a touch of originality to your look, but it will also be a special gift for whoever you want.

MORE INFORMATION

Agate (from the Greek ἀχάτης, achátes) is a variety of chalcedony , a generic name given to quartz , when it occurs in compact masses of microcrystalline silica with a fibrous-oriented texture. Agate has a typical zoned structure and is visible even to the naked eye, thanks to the diversity of colour. Botswana agate is a particular type of agate , its colors enchant and conquer. ... This variety of banded chalcedony has colors ranging from brown to orange and pink to gray. The stone is wrapped in its warm streaks that refer precisely to its protective action.

The name onyx indicates two completely different types of rocks: siliceous onyx which is normally black in color streaked with white and has a SiO ₂ composition . nH2O , similar to chalcedony ₍ but not quartz , which is crystalline), found in Brazil , Mexico , and other places; and calcareous onyx , also known as "alabastrite onyx", "Etoca onyx" or "Egyptian onyx", which is composed of CaCO ₃ (that of Montaione is brown or light green that of Pakistan ).

Sunstone is a plagioclase feldspar , which when viewed from certain directions exhibits a spangled appearance . It has been found in southern Norway , Sweden , various locations in the United States, and a few beaches along the central coast of South Australia.

The optical effect is due to the reflections of red copper , hematite or goethite inclusions, in the form of minute flakes, hexagonal , rhombic or irregular in shape, and arranged parallel to the main cleavage plane . These inclusions give the stone an aventurine-like appearance , hence sunstone is also known as "feldspar-aventurine". The optical effect called schiller and the color in Oregon Sunstone is due to the copper. The central part of this crystal sparkles and usually the color is darkest in the center and becomes lighter towards the outer edges.

The feldspar that usually exhibits the aventurine appearance is oligoclase , although the effect is sometimes seen in orthoclase: thus two types of sunstone are distinguished as "oligoclase sunstone" and "orthoclase sunstone" .

The opal it's a mineral colloidal amorphous , consisting of silica hydrates (SiO ₂ n H ₂ O), semiamorphous o microcrystalline , i.e. devoid of reticular structure , in fact it does not appear in crystals, but in veins, nodules and crusts of various colors, often with iridescence. The color varies from transparent to milky white, with an infinite number of different intermediates (green, red, yellow, brown, black).

The word "opal" has root common in the Sanskrit ùpala , in Greek ὀπάλλιος opallios It is in the Latin opulus (meaning " precious stone " ^[4] ).

97% of the world's opal production is in Australia ^[5] , a country that has made it its national stone, especially in the area of Lightning Ridge , where black opal is mined. Important deposits are also located in Mexico and in Ethiopia .

Opalescence , the play of color and light exhibited by opal specimens, is due to effects of interference and to diffraction of the light caused in turn by the regular arrangement of the silica spheres, which arrange themselves in a packed, regular and three-dimensional shape; it is therefore similar to the arrangement of crystals.

Tiger 's eye is a variety of quartz containing inclusions of crocidolite , a mineral belonging to the asbestos group. The presence of these isooriented fibers, yellow tending towards gold, gives the mass a particular effect called chatoyancy . It is used primarily as a gemstone for jewelry making usually in cabochon cut . The mineral comes mainly from South Africa and is appreciated for its particularity.