Sheen by Artline Jewelry Brog

If you search for free photos of lotus flowers on the internet, you will find flowers with a gentle pink color like this, or even pale pink. What did I pronounce?  "Padpadracha", which is confusing at first, is pronounce as  “  Pad-pa-rad-sha  ”  which means "lotus flower" in Sinhala, one of the official languages ​​of Sri Lanka. Padparadscha sapphire is a popular but rare stone named after it. At some point in Bangkok, a large amount of padparadscha sapphire, which was supposed to be a rare stone, was on the market, but it was later discovered that it was a beryllium-treated padparadscha color, and there was a time when people involved in the stone in Bangkok were disturbed  .  I remember that the treated padparadscha I saw at that time were all close to orange, but the actual lotus flower is such a gentle pink color. Padparadscha is defined as something between pink and orange.  However, the stones previously sent to a reliable identification ag...

Chef T and I were classmates at the Gemological Institute of America in Santa Monica. Chef T was just one of the classmates sitting quietly behind me at that time. When our class was studying about jade,  chef T told an old story about the relationship between chef T 's grandmother and a jade during our lunch time. It was a very memorable story, so I would like to interview chef T and introduce the story.   At the time of World War II,  Chef T's grandmother was living with  Chef T's grandfather who was a young police officer and three small children, the oldest of which was Chef T's father, in a small residential police box located at Shimogawara, Numazu City, Shizuoka Prefecture, where was about 20 minutes on foot from the beach.   One night near the end of the war, Numazu was hit by a large air raid.   At the time of World War II , the human rights situation was not same as these days , a person's life is much lighter. Every ...

On the 4th of next month, I will be appearing on the jewelry day of the shop channel in Tokyo for 1 hour (from 19:00) Jade of Artline. This time, I wanted to add a lot of white sparkle to jade and metal to create a collection where I wanted to wear jade in a fashionable and casual way.  I was asked by my customer, "What do you recommend?" Among them, this time I made a carving that used a lot of lavender.　　 Lavender jade is rare in beautiful color or transparency, if it has more beautiful color and transparency,  it is more rare and hard to find.   I like not only jade but also "stones with good luster", so I always look for rough stones with color and transparency that increase luster for lavender jade though such stones are rare and expensive. Sheen is displaying a simple design of lavender jade that satisfies both. This stone holds 17ct and this color and brightness. It is high-end quality even for a ring, however,    I felt it was a little too big for a...

A place to relax and soothe your tired eyes March 10, 2023 Working with jewelry puts a lot of strain on my eyes,  so I try to relax and not use my eyes as much as  possible at week end. don't drive Avoid looking at computer or mobile phone My boom these days is a small trip to visit  the suburbs of Bangkok.  I will spend about half a day on my day off  walking and exploring the area that can be  moved by BTS etc not to drive a car. The other day, I walked through the area  adjacent to the Chulalongkorn University, which is located between the BTS National Stadium station and the subway Sam Yan station. There were many unexpected discoveries,  and it was a pleasant walking trip to feel the fresh air  of the student town for the first time  in a long time in living in a close area . Especially this dome surprised me. Even though I could see it from my apartment,  I always wondered where and what it was. I started from the back of the ...

March 10 2023 On a quiet Sunday afternoon, I went to  the opposite bank of the Chao Phraya River  to take a walk for exercising in an unknown place that was  close and easy to reach.  Take the BTS to  Krung Thonburi station, transfer to the monorail  and get off at Khlong San station,and   enter the narrow road beside the Bangkok bank  then head towards the river.  It was said that  there was a local market, but most of the stalls were  empty probably because of the covid 19 epidemic.   I kept walking closer to the river, I found a  warehouse-like building .  It is a simple black-painted  old building, Sign says" The Jam Factory" .   It may have been a warehouse in the past because  it is close to the pier.   I saw the light inside, so I entered. it is a gallery of well designed furniture and lighting.    There is a cafe and a bookstore in the back.   There were m...