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Turquoise
| Bead size / style | Price per bracelet |
|---|---|
| Chipstone | ₱350.00 |
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Material reference
Turquoise · Ugnay ng Langit at Lupa
Scientific identity, documented history, and community contexts are presented with sources. TÁWID’s contemporary design interpretation is identified separately.
Material identity
Turquoise is a hydrated copper-aluminium phosphate, commonly opaque and blue to green. GIA describes its development where copper-bearing groundwater reacts with phosphorus- and aluminium-bearing materials in dry environments. Its small crystals form aggregates, with differences in porosity affecting the polish and texture. Cabochons, beads, inlays and carvings draw on these physical characteristics in different ways. [1]
Documented historical context
Ancient Egyptian turquoise provides a particularly well-documented case. The Metropolitan Museum’s research discusses mining at Wadi Maghara and Serabit el-Khadim in Sinai, where tools, inscriptions and expedition remains connect extraction with royal activity. A Middle Kingdom temple at Serabit el-Khadim was dedicated to Hathor, whose titles included associations with turquoise. The stone was worked into beads, amulets and inlays, including jewellery belonging to people with royal connections.
In that Egyptian setting, blue-green colour could evoke vegetation and fertility. This is a historically situated interpretation supported by the objects and their context; it is not a property of all turquoise. The Met also emphasizes that older visual identifications of blue-green materials have sometimes proved incorrect after analysis.
Other histories deserve their own treatment. GIA identifies Nishapur in Iran as an important source associated with a prized blue colour and discusses turquoise jewellery made by Pueblo, Hopi, Zuni and Navajo artists. These traditions differ in makers, techniques and cultural setting. Describing them separately respects those differences and avoids turning their histories into a single global meaning. [1] [2]
TÁWID’s contemporary interpretation
Ugnay ng Langit at Lupa is TÁWID’s contemporary interpretation of relationships between landscape and everyday life.
Material note
“Persian blue” can be used as a colour description in commerce and does not, by itself, establish Iranian origin. A particular bracelet’s treatment, material identification and source should be described separately.
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