Gemstone Stories & Jewelry Inspiration

Why €295 Is Not Expensive. It's Honest.
What Goes Into a Ring The stone. A natural moonstone of the quality I use — Sri Lankan origin, good adularescence, no treatments, appropriate size for the setting — costs between €18 and €45 at the wholesale level in Jaipur, depending on the specific piece. I am not buying industrial-grade material. I am buying stones I have selected individually for their optical quality. The setting work. A silver setting made by a craftsman in Jaipur with the level of skill I require takes between two and four hours of skilled... Read more...
The Day I Found Out a Stranger in Berlin Was Wearing My Ring
What It Means That Something Is Handmade I think about this question more than most people would expect a designer to think about it. The word "handmade" gets used so... Read more...
Garnet: The Stone of January Women and Those Who Know How to Wait
What Garnet Actually Is Garnet is not a single mineral. It is a family — a group of silicate minerals that share a crystal structure but differ in chemical composition,... Read more...
Jaipur: The City That Makes Jewelry for the Whole World (and Doesn't Get Credit for It)
The City That Moves the World's Gems Jaipur is the Pink City — named for the terracotta-painted buildings of its old quarter, a colour that was applied in 1876 to... Read more...
Three Women, One Startup, Zero Investors
How We Started I am going to tell you this story plainly, because I think the cleaned-up version that companies tell about their origins is usually less useful than the... Read more...
Natural Stones as Investment: What I Learned in the Gem Markets of Jaipur
Why Stones Hold Value The economic logic of gemstone value is straightforward once you understand the underlying factors. Natural stones are finite. The earth is not producing more ruby deposits.... Read more...
Amethyst or Moonstone: How the Stone Chooses You
Amethyst: The Stone of Clarity After Turbulence Amethyst is purple quartz. The name comes from the ancient Greek amethystos — literally, "not intoxicated." The Greeks believed wearing amethyst would protect... Read more...
Smart Jewelry: Why I Invented a Jewelry Constructor
The Question Nobody Was Asking The jewelry industry had spent decades solving for beauty. For rarity. For price points and collections and seasonal trends. It had not, as far as... Read more...
Snow Obsidian: The Winter Stone and the Women Who Don't Explain Themselves
What Snow Obsidian Actually Is Most people know obsidian as volcanic glass — black, sharp, ancient. The Aztecs carved it into mirrors. Surgeons in experimental medicine have used obsidian blades... Read more...
Why I Left for Jaipur with €1,000 and Never Looked Back
The Mistake That Changed Everything At that moment I could have turned around. Rebooked. Gone home to regroup. The sensible thing. Instead, I looked at my children — exhausted, bewildered,... Read more...
Geometric jewelry design and architecture
This tandem has existed for a long time, but at the same time it is unusual to see how architecture is used in jewelry design and fashion. Adelina World has... Read more...
Jewelry psychology: the character of a woman and her jewelry
Jewelry is not only a great way to emphasize an individual style, but also an opportunity to learn about a person's character, habits, lifestyle and values. Women always strive to... Read more...
Fashion jewelry in 2021
Fashion jewelry is always a nice accessory to every look of charming women. It is difficult to imagine a modern woman who follows the latest trends and fashion news without... Read more...
Jewelry that every woman should have
There doesn't have to be a lot of jewelry. It is enough to have at least one piece of jewelry from each jewelry group to be beautiful and correctly combine... Read more...