Amethyst Crystal Bracelet 5A Myrrh Resin scattered through quartzite

scattered through quartzite

and the stone has been set into rings and seals wherever its patterns suggested gardens

the same metal darkened where the surface weathered

not the stone

Amethyst Crystal Bracelet 5A Myrrh Resin scattered through quartziteAmethyst the violet quartz the ancient world prized above almost any other. The Greeks wore it to stay clear headed at the table; Rome cut it into signet rings. Untreated, now worn at the wrist. It was one of the cardinal gems of antiquity, set beside diamond, ruby, and emerald until Brazils great deposits arrived in the nineteenth century. What changed was the supply, not the stone the same zoned violet, deepest where each crystal grew toward its