Handmade Beaded Gemstone Silver Leather Jewellery, Mens Jewellery

The belief that cats eye is a variety of gemstone is not an uncommon mistake.  The mistake is probably compounded by the existence of de facto gemstones tigers eye and hawks eye.  Actually, cats eye - or chatoyancy - is an optical effect produced by certain gemstones.  It is usually found in fibrous gemstones such as quartz, beryl and moonstone.  The effect is like a narrow eliptical band of light which moves as the gemstone is oriented.

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Jewellery websites commonly allow you to browse jewelley by material, e.g., silver, turquoise, pearl and so on.  This is a useful method for browsing websites as often we have a favourite gemstone, or indeed birthstone, that we wish to buy.

However, shoppers sometimes prefer to buy according to colour rather than any type of stone.  It may be that you've bought a new dress and simply want a piece of jewellery with a matching or complimentary colour to your new dress.  Browsing by material type can be useful in this regard, but it isn't a perfect method of searching.

For instance, if we want to buy an item of jewelry which is green we may know that jade is green so we have the option of searching the "jade" link.  However, jade also comes in a number of other colours so a search on jade is likely to yield irrelevant results among the relevant.  The same is true of coral which is understood to be red, but also has pink and black variants.  It is also true of many other gemstones which are primarily associated with a single colour.

Moreover, if a buyer simply wants a green item of jewellery but is on tight budget, then searching the jade section for green items might not be the best use of her time.

The most obvious solution - which is seldom employed by jewellery websites - is to allow customers to search their items by colour.  And this method has been implemented by Mochishop.  In the bottom right-hand corner of the website is a section called "shop by colour" which enables customers to see all our shop items which include a particular colour, just by clicking a link.

So, if you're looking for a yellow item to match your blue outfit, click the "yellow" link to pull up all our items of yellow jewellery.  Have a try, see what colourful items you can find to match your clothes.

Jade is an intriguing gemstone, mostly green but found in a variety of other colours such as lavendar and mutton-fat yellow.  Interestingly, jade is not a single gemstone but two gemstones: jadeite and nephrite.

For centuries it was assumed that jadeite and nephrite were the same stone but it was only in the 19th Century - and due to the scientific advances of the time - that these two similar stones were found to be different.

Perhaps for the sake of convenience we still refer to both stones as jade rather than calling them by their separate titles.

But they have enough similar properties to both be accurately known as jade: a predominately green colour, a greasy lustre and a not-too-dissimilar hardness.