Labradorite and Blue Chalcedony Necklace
Hands up all those who have heard of Labradorite...Well, according to the dictionary, Labradorite is "a grayish almost opaque form of feldspar with flashes of blue, green, and/or yellow visible at certain angles" and we can't argue with that! Mostly you get beautiful flashes of blue - its technical name is 'Schiller' (for some reason, probably the guy who first found it or summat...) and you also only tend to see it when light hits it at a certain angle so it's difficult to get the full effect via the scanner although the pendant shows this very well.
There are three different shapes of Labradorite in this necklace - the pendant is a large smooth briolette with a flat back, the large round beads and the oval-ish beads. I've teamed these with lovely little faceted rondelles of naturally-coloured (i.e., not dyed) Blue Chalcedony which is like alabaster and is a close colour match to the flashes in the Labradorite.
Labradorite with good schiller is expensive and I can guarantee you absolutely won't find this anywhere on the High Street!


