Amber Jewelry Shopping
Popular Myanmar amber jewelry in the Bogyoke Market Yangon comes in cognac color created among other as charming pendants and wrist trinkets some bracelets plus earrings and other fine pieces for an appealing look.
Amber having fossil inclusions means fine organic jewelry the setting is mostly silver to keep the costs down since using gold immediately will increase the price.
Amber Necklace Amber Bracelet
That way prices are mostly kept up to around thirty dollars it might include some Amber beads and special stuff such as buttons also they are not very sought after anymore. The forests are still hiding fossil amber. One of the most famous areas the brown to golden colored resin is found are the Baltic States the Dominican Republic and other such as Myanmar.
Buying Myanmar Amber made from this organic gemstone jewelry won't automatically mean it is Baltic amber since in the few decades new deposits have been found by technological detection improvements. Now the drops and bigger items come e.g. also from Myanmar’s north around the same area where jade is found.
Amber having fossil inclusions means fine organic jewelry the setting is mostly silver to keep the costs down since using gold immediately will increase the price.
Amber Jewelry Shopping
Amber Necklace Amber Bracelet
That way prices are mostly kept up to around thirty dollars it might include some Amber beads and special stuff such as buttons also they are not very sought after anymore. The forests are still hiding fossil amber. One of the most famous areas the brown to golden colored resin is found are the Baltic States the Dominican Republic and other such as Myanmar.
Buying Myanmar Amber made from this organic gemstone jewelry won't automatically mean it is Baltic amber since in the few decades new deposits have been found by technological detection improvements. Now the drops and bigger items come e.g. also from Myanmar’s north around the same area where jade is found.
Where Myanmar / Burmese amber come from?
The stone-like similar organic material is also known under the name Burmite and is found in the northern Kachin State around the same area where jadeite is mined.
Since the Chinese Han dynasty, about 200 bc until 200 amber was used as an art material for stone carving and jewelry just like jade although amber is easier to handle because it is much softer than jade on Mo's scale it is around 3 and jade is around 7-8.
The old Chinese called it Hu-pe and it was said it contains the soul of a tiger. At that time jade had the myth to block evil.
Amber Jewelry with fossil inclusions
This are really pretty pieces of body decoration are amber jewelry but there is more. Now beside of Baltic, it's Myanmar Amber with amazing amber Buddha carvings and necklaces.In particular, many people find the inclusion of insects somehow attractive.
Just imagine there is a fly frozen in time since 100 millions of years inside that piece of amber that could be interesting indeed. In recent times a few other producers from the Dominican Republic and Myanmar Burma came to market with exceptional Burmese amber Buddha carvings and Jewelry.
Amber Jewelry
Myanmar is well known for rubies sapphires and other colored gemstones and with amber the managed to create a somehow organic fusion jewelry items.
Amber Jewelry carvings from Myanmar they found out that with their great knowledge for jade carving it's an ideal new match to make real jewelry artwork. Imagine a skillful jade Buddha but made from amber. Since the cognac colored organic gemstone is not very hard it is ideal for stone carvings of statues and jewelry.
Myanmar Amber Sources
The time is right to look at amber from a different perspective besides of beautiful jewelry there is a trend to amber art objects and ornaments.
A German traveler Fritz Noetling described in 1892 about the mining of the Myanmar/Burmese amber how it was mined and brought some samples of end products to Europe such as beads and small sculptures. The story of all this is very similar to jade which was also found in Kachin State.
Studies of the trapped insects in 1917 indicated that this resin was from other aged as the Baltic material the mines were closed in 1936 and restarted again at the change of to the 21st millennium. Since the 201x Myanmar/Burmese jewelry and ornaments slowly show up in Yangon's Bogyoke Market the central gem shopping place in the former capital.
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