custom jewelry design and manufacture
I love colored stones. Here are some that I’ve used in my designs.
In these earrings, the matched garnets change color from dark forest green to raspberry purple under different lighting. With their diamond frames, I loved how elegant they turned out.
Spessartite garnet is an intense orange color.
The color of tsavorite garnet is a vivid green unlike any other gemstone. Follow the link to learn more about garnet from the Gemological Institute of America.
Dark purplish red chrome pyrope garnet comes from Arizona. It is called "anthill garnet" because ants excavate the areas where it is found, raising the stones to the surface.
We mounted this trillion-shaped, brilliant purplish red tourmaline (also called rubellite) in 18-karat yellow gold.
"Paraiba" tourmaline is the most sought-after gem in the world at the moment. I've been showing a lot of it lately, including the larger of these two stones. Named for the state in Brazil where it was discovered, but now only available from eastern Africa. Traces of copper in its makeup give Its stunning glowing green-blue to blue-green color.
The vivid orangey red color of this small heart-shaped spinel was breathtaking! We mounted it in 18-karat yellow gold. Spinels, like tourmalines, come in practically every color and, like many garnets, have a sharp brilliance due to forming in the same crystal pattern as diamonds.
We mounted three very fine large Burmese peridots, each in its own necklace, which can be worn by itself or in combination with the others.
Many jewelry designers (and gemologists!) love the billowy bluish light to be seen floating in moonstone. We set this one in 18-karat yellow gold, accented by blue sapphires.
This free-form crystal opal weighs 6.41 carats and has the distinctive appearance of the material discovered in 2008 in northeastern Ethiopia. We mounted it in 18-karat yellow gold.
This cushion-shaped, fancy intense yellow diamond weighing three carats is mounted in an 18-karat yellow gold setting; the rest of the ring is in platinum, with a trapezoid diamond weighing about 0.50 carat on each side. I worked with an excellent trade manufacturer in Dallas to produce it.
Rainbow pyrite in a custom-made pendant, set with a diamond for the bail.