Garnet Crystal Bracelet Incense Sticks nephrite and jadeite

nephrite and jadeite

then vanishes

That floating light is adularescence

and a blank postcard with envelope

When it first reached Europe it was priced as a rare gem

Garnet Crystal Bracelet Incense Sticks nephrite and jadeiteGarnet deep wine red with a glassy depth, the stone the ancient world inlaid over gold and named for the pomegranate seed. Harder than quartz, red the whole way through. Strung on elastic cord. This is almandine, the iron garnet, coloured by iron within its own structure a dark red carrying violet or brown depths, transparent where the stone runs clean. Its Latin name, granatum, is the pomegranate, for crystals that cluster in rock like seeds. It was