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Orange and gold beads match autumn leaves – try combining carnelian with black beads like onyx. Enhance your imagination with a touch of gold. Try mixing contrasting colours like brown and gold with blues and green. For Halloween, skull jewellery are popular with the young, who wear skull rings on their fingers and hang skull pendants on their phones.
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Cambridge Bead Fair
As usual Cambridge was very busy, with the smallish hall chock-a-block. Cambridge is a good area for crafters. Although we had many visitors from East (even North West) London.
All five exhibitors done well with the large football. We’ll be back at this popular venue just off the M11, in the spring.
The name Opal came from many places. In Greek Opallios translates as colour change, and to the ancient Romans Opalus was a stone from several elements. Pliny, a Roman author, wrote opal combines the sparkle of Almandine, the shining purple of Amethyst, the golden yellow of Topaz, and the deep blue of Sapphire.
Types of Opal
Fine opals shine and sparkle in a continually changing play of colours called Opalising. Depending on the location they have names like Harlequin, Peacock, and Fire Opal. Most opal has this play of colours except Common Opal, a name give to all others, like Pink Opal. As demand outstrips supply, fine opalizing opal is very expensive – sometimes costing hundreds of pounds each bead. Therefore, the most popular for jewellery is non-opalizing opal – usually pink opal from Peru.
Opals play of colour is caused by small spheres of silica creating interference and refraction. The spheres, which are arranged in compact structures, dissect light through the gemstone, turning it into the rainbow effect, always new and different.
Peruvian Opal
Peruvian Opal comes in faint pink, light blue and light mint-green tones. From the Andes Mountains near San Patricio, Peru. Although native South Americans have been using the stone for thousands of years, it only became widely available recently. It’s usually translucent to opaque with no play of colour and often has lots of black and tan dendrites. Most Peruvian Opal beads are semi-opaque to opaque. Peruvian opals metaphysical properties are similar to other opals. Helping to intensify your traits and characteristics. Peruvian Opal can activate the heart charka and assist during spiritual journeys.
How to Value Opal
Price of fine opal depends on its play of colour, the colours, their pattern and location. If red appears when looking through the stone, so will all the other colours.
Black Opal or a dark grey has the most play of colour. Especially from Lightning Ridge or Mexican Fire Opal. Crystal opal is the next best, being more transparent with a deep play of colour. White or milky opals with diffuse colour and are the cheapest.
To bring out the play of colour in a fine opal, the stones are cut and polished to round or oval cabochons. Only the best qualities of Fire Opal is faceted.
How does Opal Effect You?
Opal is thought to remove depression and to help find true love. Opals are thought to enhance the positive characteristics for those born under the sign of Cancer. With Black Opal recommended to Scorpios and Boulder Opal for Aries.
Looking after Opal
Due to around 5% water, opals easily become brittle. If stored too dry or exposed to heat, the play of colour will fade. Therefore, Opal jewellery should be worn as often as possible, giving gemstone the humidity from the air and skin of its wearer.
See our Peruvian Opal Nugget Beads: Opal Beads
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Next Bead Fairs:
Sunday 18th Sept: Cheshire Bead Fair, Nantwich Civic Hall, Nantwich CW5 5DG.
Saturday 24th Sept: Cambridge Bead Fair, Harston Village Hall, Harston SO42 7RY.
Sunday 2nd October: Beads Up North, Haydock Racecourse, Newton-Le-Willows WA12 0HQ
Saturday 15th Oct: Luton Bead Fair, Stockwood Hotel, Castle Street, Luton LU1 3SS
Sunday 16th Oct: New Forest Bead Fair, Brockenhurst Village Hall, Brockenhurst SO42 7RY
Sunday 23rd Oct: Norwich Bead Fair, Best Western George Hotel, Arlington Lane, Norwich NR2 2DA
Weekend 29th-30th Oct: Newton Abbot Gem n Bead Fair, Newton Abbot Racecourse, Kingsteignton, Devon TQ12 3AF.
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