The stones featured in Woman with a Torch jewelry are most often cut/ polished in studio, though a few have been sourced from other lapidary artists.
These small pieces of earth often carry an inner secret in the beauty and wonder of their unique creation story. Different mineral formations and conditions over eons of time, deep in the earth formed a world of colors and patterns of not seen elsewhere in nature.
The art of lapidary, cutting into the rough rock, grinding away its crumbly crust, polishing to a shine is the art of revealing a stone's inner beauty.
The world of rock saws, grinding wheels, dop sticks, and polishing grits, is messy and time consuming, but worth it. Each stone's transformation is a tiny miracle.
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