Color Your World With Garnet Earrings
by Eva Panini
Garnet has been a part of the jewelry landscape since the bronze age and is grouped into six different categories. Although garnet varieties occur in many colores from red through orange to yellow and green, the most popular color is the brownish red almandine garnet variety.
garnet stud earrings are the most common type for January’s birthstone. Almandine garnet is fairly inexepensive and so many different shapes apart from the basic round used for studs are available. Other Coomonly seen cuts are cushion, pear and emerald cut. Almandine garnet is a clean stone as well as hard and offers good durability for use as studs. Brilliance is also good when almandine garnet is of a lighter tone.
Silver garnet earrings come in a wide assortment. Inexpensive silver combined with almandine garnet allows for scale in a silver earring design since you will only be restricted by the weight of the earring as it approaches a level where it would be uncomfortable for the average woman to wear. Antique garnet earrings designs work well in sterling because this metal can be blackened to give a vintage look.Usually garnet is paired with lighter colored stones like rose quartz and amber because these colored stones are more complimentary to the darkened red color of almandine.
Garnet drop earrings are quite popular in sterling silver, especially with small faceted or cabochon round garnet beads that form the the middle of the drop. Usually its the cheaper garnet family gems like almandine that are used as cabochons and beads in silver fashion earrings. The other more expensive varieties like tsavorite are frequently faceted into traditional gem cuts to be used as centers stones because tsavorite costs upwards of $30 per carat on the retail market. Tsavorite and the more expensive malaia and color change garnets are more used in garnet gold earrings rahter than sterling silver garnet earrings.
Gold is running at over $850 an ounce and so the practice of less expensive gem stones that were mounted in gold settings when gold was $400-$600 an ounce has pretty much stopped. The only time this happens is when designer jewelry pieces require the inexpensive gemstone for color purposes. In any event, the pricing of designer jewelry like David Yurman goes beyond the mere cost of the jewelry materials. It doesn’t really matter what gemstones are used in high end designer pieces since the designer label itself will command a healthy premium.
Chandelier earrings came to popularity in the last few years and garnet chandelier earrings are particularly intriguing because of the huge variety of shapes that almandine garnet can be cut into without concern for cost or wastage. The chandlier earrings shown incorporate marquise and square shaped garnets which add a lot of dimensionality to the earring as aopposed to using the standard round or cusion cut shapes that more expensive gemstones are cut in to save weight.
garnet dangle earrings like the garnet and emerald earrings below is a good color combination. The emeralds are small and light in color and contrast beautifully with the larger oval shaped garnet stones in the setting. Notice that the garnets are faceted and are lighter in color than normal for almandite garnet. This is because this shade goes well with the light green of the emeralds.
Garnet hoop earrings are popular in silver but see the image where the gold hoop has small round pyrope or rhodolite garnets set on the edge. This color goes wonderfully with the yellow gold and being more expensive than almandite garnet makes it a good fir for gold in a generic design like this one.
Garnet has been a part of the jewelry landscape since the bronze age and is grouped into six different categories. Although garnet varieties occur in many colores from red through orange to yellow and green, the most popular color is the brownish red almandine garnet variety.
garnet stud earrings are the most common type for January’s birthstone. Almandine garnet is fairly inexepensive and so many different shapes apart from the basic round used for studs are available. Other Coomonly seen cuts are cushion, pear and emerald cut. Almandine garnet is a clean stone as well as hard and offers good durability for use as studs. Brilliance is also good when almandine garnet is of a lighter tone.
Silver garnet earrings come in a wide assortment. Inexpensive silver combined with almandine garnet allows for scale in a silver earring design since you will only be restricted by the weight of the earring as it approaches a level where it would be uncomfortable for the average woman to wear. Antique garnet earrings designs work well in sterling because this metal can be blackened to give a vintage look.Usually garnet is paired with lighter colored stones like rose quartz and amber because these colored stones are more complimentary to the darkened red color of almandine.
Garnet drop earrings are quite popular in sterling silver, especially with small faceted or cabochon round garnet beads that form the the middle of the drop. Usually its the cheaper garnet family gems like almandine that are used as cabochons and beads in silver fashion earrings. The other more expensive varieties like tsavorite are frequently faceted into traditional gem cuts to be used as centers stones because tsavorite costs upwards of $30 per carat on the retail market. Tsavorite and the more expensive malaia and color change garnets are more used in garnet gold earrings rahter than sterling silver garnet earrings.
Gold is running at over $850 an ounce and so the practice of less expensive gem stones that were mounted in gold settings when gold was $400-$600 an ounce has pretty much stopped. The only time this happens is when designer jewelry pieces require the inexpensive gemstone for color purposes. In any event, the pricing of designer jewelry like David Yurman goes beyond the mere cost of the jewelry materials. It doesn’t really matter what gemstones are used in high end designer pieces since the designer label itself will command a healthy premium.
Chandelier earrings came to popularity in the last few years and garnet chandelier earrings are particularly intriguing because of the huge variety of shapes that almandine garnet can be cut into without concern for cost or wastage. The chandlier earrings shown incorporate marquise and square shaped garnets which add a lot of dimensionality to the earring as aopposed to using the standard round or cusion cut shapes that more expensive gemstones are cut in to save weight.
garnet dangle earrings like the garnet and emerald earrings below is a good color combination. The emeralds are small and light in color and contrast beautifully with the larger oval shaped garnet stones in the setting. Notice that the garnets are faceted and are lighter in color than normal for almandite garnet. This is because this shade goes well with the light green of the emeralds.
Garnet hoop earrings are popular in silver but see the image where the gold hoop has small round pyrope or rhodolite garnets set on the edge. This color goes wonderfully with the yellow gold and being more expensive than almandite garnet makes it a good fir for gold in a generic design like this one.
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