The JADE thread!

[berniechocolate]

I love the non-traditional take on jade! This is just breathtaking bernichocolate! Is there a website, where we could see similar designs or was this custom made? And p.s. you have beautiful skin!

Hello Essie , this is from Hong Kong . My recent trip back where my folks are , was a fruitful one . It’s from one of my regular sellers. But they don’t ship overseas .

Tpf doesn’t allow advertorials but hk has a culture of jade . U can check out jade jewelry stores like chow tai fook in Hk . They only sell grade A though it’s a bit expensive . Thank u for your kind compliments I hope if u have some jade u can share with us your lovely jotd ( jade of the day photos ) too !

 

[berniechocolate]

I am now dead. That is a perfect lavender with the green flowers inside

U don’t need to be dead [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23] . If you come to Singapore , you can look At Li Hong for such similar pieces or perhaps if going hk , chow tai fook .

 

[BreadnGem]

Everyone has posted so many beauties! I spent days catching up [emoji4].

Current favorite: icy white.

Think if I ever have to wear a permanent bangle, I’d choose this.

 

[dingobeast]

U don’t need to be dead [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23] . If you come to Singapore , you can look At Li Hong for such similar pieces or perhaps if going hk , chow tai fook .

Thank you, Bernie-I am saving these. We are planning a HK/Singapore trip

 

[dingobeast]

Everyone has posted so many beauties! I spent days catching up [emoji4].

Current favorite: icy white.

Think if I ever have to wear a permanent bangle, I’d choose this.

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So very icy!

 

[Raindrops1789]

Everyone has posted so many beauties! I spent days catching up [emoji4].

Current favorite: icy white.

Think if I ever have to wear a permanent bangle, I’d choose this.

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This is gorgeous!!! Can you tell me more about it, BreadnGem?

 

[crosso]

So beautiful bangles! The carvings are great too! Did you ever bought from JadebyNikolai? I like her carved bracelets and bangles very much..but sooo expensive!!! I wonder sometimes if the quality justifies the price...that said I'm absolutely in love with my bracelet from her - incredible design and very translucent jadeite with nice carving

Thank you, FraBa! I have only admired JadebyNikolai (very much!) but not bought - too $$$ for me. Her pieces are really gorgeous, lucky you to have one!

 

[crosso]

Today’s stack of Spring Fairy, gold leather, bead bracelet and the Flowers in Snow. Also, a jade pendant that looks just like my dingobeast. Today it is warm and weirdly windy, I am betting we get a big old snow storm.

Beautiful stack!!

 

[FraBa]

Thanks purse nut and fraba

Pea is lavender icy variety . I feel that lavender is always hard to capture accurately in pics . They almost always appear more vivid in pictures than real life . I would say the true shade will be something close to the second picture ( brown surface)

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I’ve never seen an lavender icy type with green before. It’s really beautiful.! The icy kinds which are more whitish before never appealed much to me because I thought the “character“ of the stone is not so present. But you pendant is [emoji7] super gorgeous [emoji177]

 

[FraBa]

Thank you, FraBa! I have only admired JadebyNikolai (very much!) but not bought - too $$$ for me. Her pieces are really gorgeous, lucky you to have one!

Thank you crossover! Yes it is a shame that’s it’s so $$$ but she has some more accessible beaded bracelet styles like the one I have which are around 150$. with the dollar-€ it wasn’t too bad for me so I treated myself just before Christmas. Really love the carving and quality of the Jadeite.

 

[FraBa]

Everyone has posted so many beauties! I spent days catching up [emoji4].

Current favorite: icy white.

Think if I ever have to wear a permanent bangle, I’d choose this.

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The bangle looks really transparent!!
I always wanted to ask someone who has an crystal withish one: how does the structure look in person? Do you see different spots? Is it really uniform like glass? Does it change colours with lighting much?
As I just have colourful bangles with a more corse structure for me it’s hard to imagine how different you bangle must be like in real life [emoji4] but it’s surely special!

 

[2boys_jademommy]

Everyone has posted so many beauties! I spent days catching up [emoji4].

Current favorite: icy white.

Think if I ever have to wear a permanent bangle, I’d choose this.

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BnG I can see why you would choose this to be a permanent bangle. It’s icy, glassy goodness
Looks perfect on your wrist. [emoji7]

 

[BreadnGem]

This is gorgeous!!! Can you tell me more about it, BreadnGem?

Raindrops, it’s an oval D-shape bangle. Brought it to the gemologist who certified it as Grade A, icy variety. I bought it from a local jade shop that has many years of history.

I had been looking for something like this for many years and came across this unexpectedly.

 

[BreadnGem]

The bangle looks really transparent!!
I always wanted to ask someone who has an crystal withish one: how does the structure look in person? Do you see different spots? Is it really uniform like glass? Does it change colours with lighting much?
As I just have colourful bangles with a more corse structure for me it’s hard to imagine how different you bangle must be like in real life [emoji4] but it’s surely special!

If you shine a torchlight through it you will see that it is fine grained with smooth, compact structure. There are bits of transparent glassy areas among the white. Overall, I’d say it looks like ice rather than glass.

The uniform glassy ones you mentioned are a different variety - the glassy variety. This type of jadeite is basically very very icy and translucent to the point of looking like glass, and commands a higher price than icy varieties.

Whether or not icy & glassy jade looks different under different lights depends on it’s color. This piece happens to be white or near colorless, but it supposedly has a very faint lavender base. Icy jades come in a myriad of colors too. Not just white.

Some people mistakenly think icy and glassy jade is more fragile than their more opaque counterparts but actually that’s not true. The more fine grained a piece of jadeite is, the stronger it is. This is bcos it has a more tightly-knitted/compact crystal structure, whereas the more opaque jades usually have coarser and more loosely-knitted structures, hence rendering them more vulnerable. Having said that, if you drop a glassy bangle on the floor, it will most certainly break too. Just that in terms of daily wear and little knocks here and there, the fine grained ones probably stand a better chance of survival. This is what I learned from experienced jade collectors.

Here are pictures of the icy bangle with a donut pendant that’s from the same boulder as the one Berniechocolate has. The donut is possibly near to glassy variety. You can see the difference between icy jade & glassy jade

Also pictures of the bangle where you can see the transparent bits and the internal structure

 

[2boys_jademommy]

If you shine a torchlight through it you will see that it is fine grained with smooth, compact structure. There are bits of transparent glassy areas among the white. Overall, I’d say it looks like ice rather than glass.

The uniform glassy ones you mentioned are a different variety - the glassy variety. This type of jadeite is basically very very icy and translucent to the point of looking like glass, and commands a higher price than icy varieties.

Whether or not icy & glassy jade looks different under different lights depends on it’s color. This piece happens to be white or near colorless, but it supposedly has a very faint lavender base. Icy jades come in a myriad of colors too. Not just white.

Some people mistakenly think icy and glassy jade is more fragile than their more opaque counterparts but actually that’s not true. The more fine grained a piece of jadeite is, the stronger it is. This is bcos it has a more tightly-knitted/compact crystal structure, whereas the more opaque jades usually have coarser and more loosely-knitted structures, hence rendering them more vulnerable. Having said that, if you drop a glassy bangle on the floor, it will most certainly break too. Just that in terms of daily wear and little knocks here and there, the fine grained ones probably stand a better chance of survival. This is what I learned from experienced jade collectors.

Here are pictures of the icy bangle with a donut pendant that’s from the same boulder as the one Berniechocolate has. The donut is possibly near to glassy variety. You can see the difference between icy jade & glassy jade

Also pictures of the bangle where you can see the transparent bits and the internal structure

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It’s beautiful and your bangle is near colourless - true ice. Often times there is a tinge of green or grey, lavender etc which are all lovely too but yours is near colourless.