Natural stones vary. Your strand will match these photos in colour and size range, not bead for bead. Photographed under daylight-balanced light with no colour correction.
Chocolate Moonstone 7x8mm Faceted Trilliant
Specifications
| SKU | GS179 |
|---|---|
| Stone | Chocolate and brown Ethiopian opal |
| Shape | Trilliant |
| Bead size | 7x8mm |
| Cut | Faceted |
| Color | — |
| Weight | On request |
| Hardness (Mohs) | 5.5 to 6.5 |
| Origin | Cut in Jaipur, India |
| Availability | In stock |
Chocolate Moonstone is a beautiful & rare find of Moonstone crystal. Moonstone is not hard but still most popular gemstone for jewelry and it’s a variety of orthoclase feldspar. The gemstone used for protection against the dangers of travel, hence once called the travelers stone.
What it makes
Trilliants are used for pendants, earrings. Measured side by side, e.g. 9x10mm; usually drilled top-drilled across one corner. More about trilliants.
Fire on a coffee-colored ground.
On the strand the color runs from milk chocolate to tan to a red-brown that reads almost like cinnamon in daylight. Then a bead turns. Green comes up through the brown, or orange, or a quick line of blue along one facet. The body color is dark enough that the flash looks lit from inside rather than laid on top. Faceted, the fire arrives in small bright pieces. People reach for these when white opal feels too cool for the rest of their work.
In ancient Rome opal stood for love and hope, and the Roman name opalus was used as a word for precious stone in general. In 75 AD Pliny wrote that some opals held a play equal to the deepest and richest colors of painters, while others seemed to carry the flaming fire of burning sulphur or the blaze of burning oil. He marveled that one gem could hold the red of ruby along with so much else. Later writers compared opals to volcanoes and to fireworks. Great stones were given poetic names: Pandora, Light of the World, Empress. By long custom opal is the October birthstone, and that custom follows the brown bodies as much as the white.
Beliefs about stones are tradition, not advice. Read the full story.
Hydrophane precious opal with a brown, tan or red-brown body, SiO2 with water, Mohs 5.5 to 6.5. Natural brown body color is typical of the older Shewa (Mezezo) deposit, found 1994, which crazes badly.
Same as white Welo: keep dry, no lotions, ultrasonic or heat.
Full stone guideMore chocolate and brown ethiopian opal
