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Kyanite Necklaces, Earrings & Gemstone Bead Bracelets

Gareth — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 02:41:11 +0000

Kyanite Necklaces, Earrings & Gemstone Bead Bracelets

Kyanite necklaces and earrings with kyanite bracelets including long kyanite bead necklaces matching gold jade and quartz in blue and pink colours.
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YAN Blue Crystal Bracelet Kyanite & Kunzite Long Bracelet Style

Ocean - Kyanite - Blue

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YAN Blue Bracelet Kyanite & Amber Small Bracelet Style

Princess - Kyanite - Blue

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YAN Pink Necklace Kyanite & Strawberry Quartz Long Necklace Style

Princess - Kyanite - Blue

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YAN Pink Bracelet Kyanite & Strawberry Quartz Small Bracelet Style

Princess - Kyanite - Blue

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YAN Blue Bead Necklace Kyanite & Gold Jade Long Necklace Style

Little Creatures - Kyanite - Blue

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YAN Blue Bracelet Kyanite & Gold Jade Small Bracelet Style

Little Creatures - Kyanite - Blue

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YAN Silver Earrings Kyanite & S925 Silver Cloud Dangle Earrings Style

Little Creatures - Kyanite - Blue

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Deep Blue Kyanite Gemstone Fashion

Kyanite gemstone formed under extreme pressure possesses deep blue sapphire like colouring with beautiful chatoyancy and unique detail, read more in our gemstone fashion jewelry blog
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YAN Blue Crystal Bracelet Kyanite & Kunzite Long Bracelet Style

Ocean - Kyanite - Blue

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YAN Blue Bracelet Kyanite & Amber Small Bracelet Style

Princess - Kyanite - Blue

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YAN Pink Necklace Kyanite & Strawberry Quartz Long Necklace Style

Princess - Kyanite - Blue

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YAN Pink Bracelet Kyanite & Strawberry Quartz Small Bracelet Style

Princess - Kyanite - Blue

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YAN Blue Bead Necklace Kyanite & Gold Jade Long Necklace Style

Little Creatures - Kyanite - Blue

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YAN Blue Bracelet Kyanite & Gold Jade Small Bracelet Style

Little Creatures - Kyanite - Blue

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YAN Silver Earrings Kyanite & S925 Silver Cloud Dangle Earrings Style

Little Creatures - Kyanite - Blue

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Kyanite Necklaces, Earrings & Gemstone Bead Bracelets

The kyanite in this range of jewelry confidently projects blue tones matching well to apatite in ocean concept design and presenting with regal princess elegance when a darker shade of kyanite is selected.

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YAN Crystal Bead Bracelet Moonstone & Chalcedony Long Bracelet Style

Ocean - Moonstone - Silver

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YAN Crystal Bead Necklace Moonstone & Rutilated Quartz Short Necklace Style

Elegance - Moonstone - Crystal

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YAN Crystal Pendant Necklace Moonstone & Chalcedony Long Necklace Style

Ocean - Moonstone - Silver

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YAN Green Bead Bracelet Moonstone & Turquoise Long Bracelet Style

Little Creatures - Moonstone - Silver

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YAN Purple Crystal Bracelet Moonstone & Rutilated Quartz Small Bracelet Style

Elegance - Moonstone - Silver

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YAN White Bracelet Moonstone & Red Amber Long Bracelet Style

Snow Princess - Moonstone - White

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YAN White Pendant Necklace Moonstone & Agate Long Necklace Style

Snow Princess - Moonstone - White

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YAN Pink White Bracelet Rutilated Quartz Small Bracelet Style

Snow Princess - Moonstone - White

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YAN Silver Bead Necklace Moonstone & Agate Long Necklace Style

Night Ocean - Moonstone - Silver

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YAN Silver Bead Bracelet Moonstone & Agate Long Bracelet Style

Night Ocean - Moonstone - Silver

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YAN Silver Earrings Moonstone & S925 Silver Dangle Earrings Style

Night Ocean - Moonstone - Silver

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YAN Silver Bead Necklace Moonstone & Obsidian Long Necklace Style

Gothic - Moonstone - Silver

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YAN Black Bead Bracelet Moonstone & Obsidian Small Bracelet Style

Gothic - Moonstone - Silver

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Clear Blue Cordierite Gemstone

Cordierite gemstone a mineral known as iolite when cut into crystal jewelry, famed for use by viking mariners with colour pleochroism ranging from sapphire blue to water clear
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Cordierite lesser used among jewelry designers is a semi precious stone with some of the strongest changes in colour across viewing angle known, radiating large shifts in colour from rich sapphire blue to near crystal clear.

Culturally important to the Nordic peoples of ancient Europe who used thin sheets of crystal as a polarising filter to help them navigate from the sun, synthetic cordierite helps to clean the modern world every minute of every day – being used in nearly every catalytic converter on Earth.

With our fashion design cordierite with strong blue colouring projects a confident palette for lovers of ocean blue tones, contrasting beautifully to clothing with mesmerising eye catching flashes of lightness.

Deep ocean blue colour cordierite bead matched to lighter quartz and tourmaline

Formation of a Cordierite Gemstone

Cordierite is part of a special family of silicate minerals known as a cyclosilicate, in common with tourmaline and beryl these silicon rich minerals have their primary elements joined together in a ring.

Silicates are some of the most important contributors to the geologic cycle of our world, involved in processes where they are weathered, crystallised, melted and metamorphose into countless varieties of minerals such as quartz gemstones.

Cordierite begins it’s journey countless aeons ago as silica rich clays that are pressed down into the earth in endless plate tectonic upheavals.

Bearing great pressure under the Earth’s surface, these silica rich clays are compressed into sedimentary rocks called pelite.

Pressed ever downward these rocks are continually heated proximately or through direct contact with extrusions of deep hot igneous rocks and further change in composition, forming minerals that include garnet, spinel, kyanite and cordierite.

Shifted onward and upward these changed rocks can resurface or are exposed by weathering of surrounding rock, sometimes found on the surface in concentrations of tough durable “hornfel” outcroppings of colourful banded rock.

This central bead of tourmaline belongs to the same crystal family as cordierite

Appearance of Cordierite

Known as “iolite” when described as a faceted gemstone, cordierite has been called the “water sapphire” where discovered in Sri Lanka due to it’s simultaneous display of ocean blue tone when viewed from one direction, to water clear transparency when viewed from another.

“Pleochroism” is the display of different colours when viewed from differing viewing angles, and cordierite exhibits some of the strongest pleochroism known among gemstones.

In early European history cordierite was named “dichroite” after the Latin for “two colours”, these special crystals that exhibit pleochroism bend light differently depending on the polarisation of the light that enters it.

Cordierite shows very strong pleochroism, from violet and darker blue tones to yellow and transparent tones can be viewed from different directions and are a useful way to determine if a gemstone is genuine cordierite.

Though frequently cut into faceted gemstones, cordierite’s special affinity to changing colour requires careful selection of the principal face of the gemstone to ensure the strongest desired colour projects along that axes.

The most sought after colours of cordierite are the violet-blue types in larger carat faceted gemstones, these predominately blue colour tones as with amethyst and many other gemstones comes from the presence of iron elements scattered throughout the crystal.

Included cordierite gemstones are not sought after in faceted gemstones though the tracery of natural fracture lines and traces of other elements are often present in beads and cabochon jewels.

In some cases these included elements locked within the crystal can form long rutile threads that produce “cat’s eye” chatoyancy in similar vein to the gloss of light reflected from a spool of fine threaded silk.

Cordierite display of plentiful blue colour elegantly lightened across change in viewing angle

Cordierite Gemstone Culture

Historically cordierite is best known for it’s use by ancient Viking seafarers who pioneered the use of using the sun and the stars to navigate away from the coast on steady bearing towards unknown shores then back home again.

Owing to the often clouded skies of Northern Europe these ancient mariners with their dependence on the sun for daylight navigation found that thin sheets of these blue mineral would show the sun even through heavy cloud, allowing them to successfully hold a fixed course in unforgiving weather.

The same crystal properties that change the colour of cordierite from ocean blue to crystal clear scattered the randomly polarised light of the sun as it passed through heavy cloud, preserving more of the original light and consequently changing colour when proximately directed at the true location of the sun.

In the modern age cordierite was named as distinct mineral gemstone by the French geologist Louis Cordier in Spain 1831 and was found to have additional remarkable properties that are now utilised to this day.

Though of a hardness on the same par as natural quartzes, cordierite was found to be exceptionally stable when exposed to large changes in heat.

Reproduced into synthetic gemstones, countless small crystals of cordierite act as a super hot medium aiding the catalysts work of making exhaust emissions less harmful.

YAN Design short style cordierite bead necklace adding colour to lighter lace clothing

Cordierite Gemstone Fashion

Deep ocean blue is one of the first impressions that comes from the natural palette of cordierite, balanced with clearer tones that change with the angle of view and lighten the overall feeling like the crests of waves on the sea.

To lovers of blue tones cordierite is a devoted companion, naturally matching well to light blue apparel where it adds depth to a look, and darker blue tones layering further attention in detail.

Our designer necklaces and bracelets crafted from cordierite gemstone belong to our ocean concept designs, featuring peaceful projection of stable emotion and rich blue colour that is very eye catching.

Larger carat size cordierite beads show deep blue colouring with shifts of colour tone with viewing angle that enhance the overall lightness of the piece when worn, a befitting addition to our range of vibrant colour necklaces and bracelets.

Cordierite is a colourful crystal that guided ancient mariners across new seas and today guides us towards a cleaner world, with ocean blue colouring and life full shifts in tone this gemstone adds life and energy in a new way to jewelry and dress.

Deep Blue Kyanite Gemstone Fashion

Gareth — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 08:24:01 +0000

Kyanite Gemstone a Beginning

Kyanite as an alternative to sapphire shows the same deep crystal blues with brilliant lustre that makes both gemstones some of the most extravagant and sought after crystals in fashion.

From the Greek word “Kyanos” – which means of blue colour, this precious gemstone was named in 1789 by the German geologist Abraham Gottlob Werner, a geologist and famed teacher who taught talented students from across Europe.

Forming under high temperature and pressure in metamorphic rock, and famous for being found in the rock bed deep underneath Manhattan island, kyanite shows peculiar differences in hardness across it’s crystal planes as well as a cat’s eye chatoyancy that draws gaze deep into the blue serenity of this beautiful crystal.

Lighter kyanite bead with natural blue colouring balanced with crystal kunzite

Origins of a Kyanite Gemstone

Following the passage of time across Earth’s geological ages, multitudes of great continents and oceans have formed together then rifted apart, riding upon the trapped heat of the core that is slowly released from the centre of our world.

One of the most famous of these previous continents is the so called “super” continent Pangaea, a vast hemisphere spanning land mass covering the Earths surface that existed over 300 million years ago.

In the early formation of Pangaea the core geological “craton” of Laurentia – which is the stable body of continent that forms most of present North America, rode across the planet from a position on the Equator ever Northwards.

As Laurentia travelled North it merged together with the ancient micro continent “Avalonia” and the Northern European landmass “Baltica”, forming what would later be the first building block of a supercontinent that would exist for over 160 million years.

The merging of these massive Northern American landmasses took place under tremendous energies, leading to great masses of rock being pressed downwards into the Earth where tremendous heat and pressure altered the original minerals.

The bedrock underlying Manhattan, and that rises to the surface in some rock outcrops of Central Park, carry the indicators of this ancient exchange in the form of kyanite crystals which can be found within them, a beautiful crystal remnant of an ancient upheaval.

Deeper kyanite bead whose light traces of natural detail and bright lustre match well to warm yellow amber

Structure of Kyanite

Comprised of aluminium, silicon and oxygen – an aluminosilicate, kyanite forms naturally in aluminium rich rock at high pressures, and is used as a geological index to determine the history of temperature and pressure the parent rock has been exposed to.

Forming long columnar crystals of strong blue colours to colourless and blue tinged brown, and even green varieties, kyanite is found where rocks have been exposed to extreme pressures – typically in “regional” metamorphism that has accompanied continental shifts across geological time.

Kyanite exhibits strong anisotropism – with the crystal exhibiting different properties in different directions, the most noted of which is two different hardnesses along and across the axes of the crystal, that vary from 5.5 to 7 on the moh’s scale and make this a gemstone that is difficult to cut.

Asides from the famous and sought after deep blue colouring Kyanite also displays strong changes in colour when viewed from different angles, ranging from deep blue to blue and then colourless – a display of “pleochroism” where light is absorbed differently as it passes from one axes to the next.

Lesser seen is a “chatoyancy” or cat’s eye effect that appears in gemstones with fibrous qualities or aligned rutile inclusions.

The chatoyancy of gemstones is caused by reflected light being reflected more strongly against the lengths of the fibres or aligned rutile inclusions, and is the same as the effect seen in a reel of silk and polished hardwoods.

Cat’s eye gemstones reflect light very strongly in the direction perpendicular to their long axes, producing a line of light that is better known in tiger’s eye crystal, beryl and aquamarine.

This kyanite bracelet piece is from our collection of kyanite gemstone jewelry

Kyanite Gemstone a Short History

Found across the world where metamorphic rocks have been exposed enough for people to find them, Kyanite was first identified as a unique gemstone by the geologist Abraham Gottlob Werner.

Born into a mining family in the 18th century Abraham developed an interest in studious classification of minerals and would later publish the first text on physical traits of minerals in 1774.

Claiming fame as a teacher of geology his teaching style drew students of mineralogy across Europe, many of whom would later send him minerals to be identified.

He would later name Kyanite from the word of “Kyanos” which is the Greek word for blue in 1789.

Lighter clothing matches well to the blue kyanite and violet flashed kunzite

Fashion of Kyanite

With a colouring like the blue of a sapphire, Kyanite in the form of faceted gemstones is a sought after crystal that possesses a deep lustred colour on par with any other precious stone and a perfect match for elegant and beautiful fashion wear.

With deep blue like colours being the most sought after, as with it’s more famous precious gemstone equivalent, kyanite is often cut into larger carat gemstones and mounted with silver and gold surrounds in simple pendant necklaces and earrings.

Best worn in stronger light where the blue colours are more apparent, though faceted kyanite rings do exist due to the ease of which kyanite is fractured, and the softer than usual hardness along one crystal axis, rings are not seen as often as well secured pendant pieces.

Sapphire like regal blue kyanite with deep evocation of natural beauty

Our YAN Jewelry Kyanite Gemstone

Softer in texture our kyanite beads are treated with resin to aid in milling and polishing, our beads are of natural colour and not artificially enhanced, showing cat’s eye chatoyancy and a range of famed blue colours varying from deep to light intensity.

Natural veining of mineral inclusions in our lighter kyanite beads are well matched to the ocean concept theme, carrying feelings of rolling blue sea and peaceful in projection of natural energy.

These lighter blue beads are well matched to the kunzite crystal that clearly varies in colour along it’s axes, flashing pink violet bursts that act to soften the transition from opaque blue to clear crystal, likewise aiding in the incorporation of lotus pendants and other light silver adornments.

Upon first glance the lighter kyanite beads may lack some of the deep sapphire blues of our other pieces but upon gazing into the crystal a wealth of inner beauty and detail give great depth to the viewer.

Kyanite cabochons and beads are rich in deeper colour and lend great depth to design, lighter rutile inclusions, texturing of colour and visible sheen of light from cat’s eye create rich tapestry of living blue colour that bring life into our designs.

Colourful bright colours full of life and energy in this kyanite featured ocean concept jewelry set

Kyanite Gemstone Summation

Nature bestows the growth of each kyanite crystal with a unique detail that differs from each and every bead, carefully choosing the spread of colours across the piece creates necklaces and bracelets that are full of energy and a sum beauty greater than any individual gemstone.

Though each of YAN jewelry designs is crafted independently with love of vibrancy and life, the deeper regal blues in our single loop kyanite and amber bracelet piece stand against other designs in moody deep blues that are very evocative of feeling.

Kyanite is a gemstone very suitable for matching between light and dark colours and differences in textures, matched with yellow amber with bright vitreous lustre and simple colour, the white sheen of chatoyancy and fibrous character of the crystal act to bridge the differences in colour and produce a stunning design in the above photos.

Our designs featuring kyanite gemstones and shown in the photos above can be seen under our our beautiful kyanite necklace and bracelet collection here, while ocean concepts with natural blue coloured gemstones are also in store.

Kyanite is a crystal formed deep under the Earth under tremendous pressure, a gemstone of the deep world underneath us that has marked the formation of the great continents of our world in their slow and massive evolution.

As a gemstone of the deep each kyanite crystal with deep blue colour and fascinating further detail carries with it a rich sensual display of tone and quality that mark this gemstone as a special addition to the world of fashion and designer jewelry.

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Kyanite Necklaces, Earrings & Gemstone Bead Bracelets

Kyanite Necklaces, Earrings & Gemstone Bead Bracelets

Deep Blue Kyanite Gemstone Fashion

Kyanite Necklaces, Earrings & Gemstone Bead Bracelets

Clear Blue Cordierite Gemstone

Formation of a Cordierite Gemstone

Appearance of Cordierite

Cordierite Gemstone Culture

Cordierite Gemstone Fashion

Deep Blue Kyanite Gemstone Fashion

Kyanite Gemstone a Beginning

Origins of a Kyanite Gemstone

Structure of Kyanite

Kyanite Gemstone a Short History

Fashion of Kyanite

Our YAN Jewelry Kyanite Gemstone

Kyanite Gemstone Summation