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2009-9-16 Source:AYpearl
When the two met with a mysterious atmosphere of the treasures the collision will have a direct intake of sparks out of people's deepest inner soul.
Turquoise jewelry like turquoise earrings and red Coral jewelry like coral necklace are both in looks and shape of the exotic, people unknowingly fascinated.
Origin
Turquoise produced the world's major countries are Iran, the United States, Egypt, Russia, and China. China's turquoise focused on Hubei, Henan, Shanxi and at the junction. To the northwest of Hubei Yun County, Zhushan County's most famous turquoise mines, followed by Baihe in Shanxi, Xinjiang, Anhui, there are outputs.
Red Coral origin are mainly three areas:
1. Pacific region: mainly in Japan, Okinawa, Taiwan's east coast and the Nansha Islands. Taiwan is a modern red coral of the most important place of origin, accounting for 60% of world production, red coral at depths of about 100-200 meters of sea-bed was groups of outputs.
2. Atlantic sea areas: the Mediterranean countries, such as the vicinity of Italy, Algeria, Tunisia, Spain, France and other major producing areas of red coral, red coral in which the best from Africa, Algeria, Tunisia and the European coast of Spain. Naples, Italy, is the most famous red coral zones.
3. Midway near the north-west of Hawaii: This sea area is red, pink coral origin.
Medicinal Value
The early Persians that turquoise bracelet can treat epilepsy and mental disorders, medieval Europeans, ground into a powder with the treatment of eye diseases, ulcers and heart pain. Domestic well-known Tibetan medicine - 25 flavor of hepatitis killer.
Mainly composed of calcium carbonate coral would be herbs dry cleaning, and research into medicine to fine can be. Its function is to shade eyesight, soothe the nerves. Attending Head Health and Yi Zhang, scared epilepsy, spit bleed at the nose.
Quality Evaluation
Quality Evaluation of turquoise from the following aspects:
Color: Sky Blue are high value, followed by dark blue, blue and green. Light blue, gray blue turquoise only be used for carving pieces, the value of tan turquoise almost no technology. Meanwhile, the color uniformity were good. The relative density and hardness of high density and hardness of the turquoise high value.
Purity: Turquoise within the often-containing impurities such as clay minerals and calcite, these impurities white, also known as "white brain", white turquoise processing of brain development of easy to burst when the quality decreased.
Special pattern: There is a special pattern is controlled by people like.
Fragmentation: quality with the same block of a good degree.
The quality evaluation of red coral from the following aspects:
Color: Request pure and bright. My craft arts community has always preferred bright red, the West called "angel skin" pink flesh in our country known as the "Pseudostellaria side" is also a good variety, while the dark red or pale pink varieties of low value. White coral pure white as the best, followed by porcelain white, white again.
Fragmentation: Request large and complete, the bigger the better, and the larger carved pieces can do, can only do a small jewelry.
Texture: hard, dense texture, flawless better than those, there are moth-eaten holes, there are fissures are low value.
Working: including the shape of art conceived and fine carving degree.