Red Jasper Crystal Bracelet Tumbled Stones More room-presence than the single-species

More room-presence than the single-species ropes

Distinct from the Peruvian Black Copal (Bursera copallifera) - same trade name family

some crossed by fine grey-white banding

light in the hand

the stone the Greeks called heliotrope

Red Jasper Crystal Bracelet Tumbled Stones More room-presence than the single-speciesRed jasper an opaque brick red chalcedony coloured through by iron, carved into seals and amulets since the earliest civilisations. Earthy and solid, with the weight of fired clay. From India, strung on elastic cord. It is the opaque cousin of carnelian the same iron coloured chalcedony, but so densely included that no light passes, reading as deep, even terracotta sometimes crossed by darker veining. Its name descends through Latin and Greek from