Jewelry Fashion > Bring on the Browns. By Lorraine DePasque, Contributing Editor This year, if buying some new gemstone jewelry is on your to-do list—especially pieces that will complement many different outfits in your wardrobe—here's our advice: Go brown.
Sounds dull? A bit drab? Actually, it's just the opposite. Because the new browns are, as they say, "not your mother's earth tones! " Speaking of fashion arbiters, Pat Tunsky, creative director for The Doneger Creative Group, an international trend forecasting company based in New York City, adds that, "This season's beigy-brown family often mixes three or four tones of neutrals on a single piece of clothing.
" And when it comes to jewelry this year, the same is true. When that single piece is a statement necklace, for example, the outcome is nothing short of sensational. Major fashion designers are showing a lot of statement necklaces for the upcoming seasons, notes Wolfe, but also big bangles and cuffs. Internal World of Gemstones. In our quest to understand the complete story of gemstones we look internally to fully appreciate their external beauty.
We’ve set up a new gallery to exhibit the educational and fascinating inclusions that aid us in our work. All the gemstones photographed have passed through Pala's hands in the past year. The photos were taken in an effort to learn and appreciate the gems that we see every day. We can use the internal characteristics of gemstones to extrapolate the conditions in which they were formed, including temperature and pressure, and how that relates to the geological and geographical region they may have been associated with. The original locality of a particular gemstone can be traced back to the source by diagnostic features like a specific solid crystal inclusion or the presence of a 3-phase inclusion, just to name a couple.
The father of modern day inclusion studies is the late Dr. We will revisit some of these classic internal features that originally inspired Dr. CUT FOR GEMSTONES [2] image. CUT FOR GEMSTONES [1] image. Cut for gemstones [1] Cutting a gemstone consists of angling the facets so that the stone’s brilliance is intensified. cabochon cut Unfaceted cut suitable for opaque stones; it has one flat side and one or two convex sides. table cut The simplest kind of table cut; the rectangular girdle with sometimes rounded corners is surrounded on each side by a row of facets. rose cut Cut with a flat base and a dome made up of triangular facets; the total number of facets is a multiple of three. step cut Cut where the square or rectangular girdle is surrounded by parallel rows of rectangular facets; there are more facets on the pavilion side than on the crown side. emerald cut Classic emerald step cut that has a rectangular table with beveled corners and a girdle of the same shape with occasionally beveled corners. scissors cut Step cut with triangular facets. eight cut Cut often used for smaller diamonds; it has eight crown facets, eight pavilion facets, an octagonal table and a culet.
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BRILLIANT CUT FACETS image. Green Gem Foundation.