Sapphires
Mine to market
Find out how sapphires journey from earth to jewellery
1. Born in mother earth
Beauty in the rough
2. Respecting what nature made
Learning a sapphire's innate beauty
3. Using ancient wisdom and rituals of our ancestors
If needed, heating to unleash their fire
4. 'Pre-forming' the future
Cutting into shapes to release their beauty
5. Sparking their fire
Faceting and Polishing pre-formed sapphires
6. Harmonising nature's grace with creativity
Finding a home for sapphires in jewellery
Magic of coloured stones
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Learn about human treatments on sapphires
Magic of colour
Lean about coloured gemstones
Magic of colour
Why coloured gemstones
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Magic of colour
Introduction to sapphires
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Magic of colour
Sapphires: Mine to market
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Magic of colour
Sapphire treatments
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Magic of colour
Other coloured gemstones
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Magic of colour
Introduction to spinels
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Magic of colour
How to pick your coloured gem
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