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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 ring, so I made a very simple pendant.



This is only one kind that we have in stock.

We cannot display many large and high-quality lavender jade like this, but we are preparing carvings using large rough stones with transparency and beautiful colors for this collection.

Well, jade is a material that has been used as a gemstone for a long time, but it also has a high reputation as a "lucky charm or stone of self-defense".

In fact, I recently received an e-mail from a customer who said, "I lost the jade carving I bought at Artline jade show in TV.
" It is said from ancient times in oriental culture that it is a good thing to happen.”



It was over 25 years ago ( if you have heard it in this blog, please ignore it ), when Chef T and I went to Myanmar to buy precious and semi-precious stones, 
It is a story that I came across a beautiful jade carving . The work was an openwork of a peacock . .

(That was before I met our master carver.)

However, the price was very high, and negotiations were so difficult and lengthy.
But finally, we bought it.
It was a very valuable piece, so I wrapped it carefully, put it in a box, put it in my bag as baggage for the flight, and returned to Bangkok.
T.he came back to Bangkok.
As soon as I opened the box in our hotel room in Bangkok,
(We are living in Santa Monica at that time) 
Something unbelievable happened.

The jade peacock carving was split in half. There have been cases that a completed carving has been chipped off, when polishing with machine, but it is the first and only time that I have seen a piece of jade that split in half without doing anything . .

At that time, Chef T told me comforting words, "Jade got bad luck and cracked on your behalf." 
 This belief is believed and passed down by generation to generation in some oriental people like Japanese.

When I and Chef T were classmates at the Gemological Institute America, at one day's lunch time,
Chef T told me a strange story that happened to Chef T's grandmother at world war 2.

I was so impressed by that story, so,
when I received an e-mail saying "I dropped the jade" 
I instantly remembered the mysterious story of Chef T's grandmother which was at the bottom of my memory.

It's been long, so

I would like to upload the mysterious Jade story I heard from Chef T tomorrow.

Well then!

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