Intarsia Goddess Pendant--Chinese Bloodstone, White Jade, Wood Jasper Team ESST, , EAST, paganteam, etsyFreethinkers Team

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As more of the jasper I’ve bought arrives, I’m increasingly amazed and delighted by its colors and patterns, so I decided to find out a bit more. Here’s some of the info I gleaned from Wikipedia:

“Jasper, an opaque rock of virtually any color stemming from the mineral content of the original sediments or ash, is known to have been a favourite gem in the ancient world; its name can be traced back in Hebrew, Assyrian, Persian, Greek and Latin.[5] On Minoan Crete within present day Greece jasper was carved to produce seals circa 1800 BC based upon archaeological recoveries at the palace of Knossos.[6]

Picture jaspers exhibit combinations of patterns (such as banding from flow or depositional patterns (from water or wind), dendritic or color variations) resulting in what appear to be scenes or images, on a cut section. Diffusion from a center produces a distinctive orbicular appearance, i.e., Leopard Skin Jasper. Healed, fragmented rock produces brecciated (broken) jasper.”

There’s more, including information on the varieties of jasper and the difficulty of assigning accurate labels— at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasper

Here’s another interesting site for information which includes jasper’s alleged metaphysical and healing properties, lots of photos, and much more: http://www.mineralminers.com/html/jasminfo.htm

The most interesting bits I gleaned there are that jasper is a form of quartz, and also that ocaen jasper is not really jasper but a form of chalcedony.

Hoping you’re still with me, I’d like to introduce a goddess intarsia carving, actually bloodstone from China, which is not jasper but related, mounted on white jade and framed in wood jasper.

Doesn't she look as though she should hang on a gallery wall? I suppose she could (a doll-house gallery, maybe?) but, frame and all, she's only about 5 cm high and just under 3 wide. She's doesn't have the greens and reds you sometimes see in bloodstone, but is pretty much in shades of gray, ranging from almost black to almaost white, and carved to use the stone's pattern to enhance her body curves. All the stones from this source are 100% natural--no dye, stabilization, heat-treating, whatever. They are carved using the stones' own individual characteristics, diamond polished (which sometimes makes them so reflective they're really hard to photograph), and of course are one of a kind.

Thanks for visiting Findings. We hope you’ve found exactly what you need to finish a project or inspire a new one. Come back soon—new items are added often. You may also want to cruise on over to our original etsy store, The Creative Block, at http://www.siragwatkins.etsy.com to see some of these things in use as well as some of Leslie’s other original work.

Added on Nov 02, 2009

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