Tourmaline Silver Jewelry
What tourmaline is
Tourmaline is a boron silicate that grows in long prismatic crystals with a striated surface — and it comes in more colours than any other gem mineral. Green, pink, grey, transparent, and achroite: the colourless variety, named from the Greek for "without colour".
Every piece on this page is built around a tourmaline that was never cut. The crystal is set in the shape it grew in, so the silver has to be made for that stone and no other.
Why the colour varies so much
Tourmaline's colour comes from trace elements caught during growth — iron, manganese, lithium, chromium. Change the trace, change the colour. A single crystal can shift hue along its length, which is why two stones from the same pocket read differently on the ear.
Twenty-one pieces here, and no two stones repeat.
What is in this collection
All twenty-one are earrings, in two forms.
Classic Amulet — the stone held open, silver reduced to what the crystal needs to stay put.
Thorn Amulet — the THORN form carried into volume. THORN is the third form of the brand: a thorn with sharp angles, bringing together CNC and 3D-modelling. Fifteen of the twenty-one.
Weights run from 2.5 to 5.9 grams. The stone decides the final mass, so two pieces of the same model can differ.
Every piece is numbered
Classic Amulet Earring #28, Thorn Amulet Earring #23. The number is the running count of that model — the twenty-eighth made, not the twenty-eighth copy. When a number sells, the stone in it does not exist twice.
What we do not claim
We do not sell protection, energy or healing. What people believed about tourmaline is cultural history; we sell the object. Meaning is something you bring.
Care
No ultrasonic cleaning — raw crystals keep the internal fractures that cutting would have removed, and ultrasound finds them. Cloth or silver cleaner on the metal, keeping liquid off the stone. Take the piece off before the pool.
Frequently asked questions
Are the tourmalines natural and uncut?
Yes. Each is set in the shape it grew in, not cut to a standard.
Why do the colours differ so much?
Tourmaline takes its colour from trace elements caught during growth - iron, manganese, lithium, chromium. A single crystal can even shift hue along its length.
What is achroite?
The colourless variety of tourmaline. The name comes from the Greek for without colour.
Will my piece match the photograph?
The silver will. The stone will not - each is photographed individually because each is different. What you see in the listing is the stone you receive.
How heavy are they?
Between 2.5 and 5.9 grams. The stone decides the final mass, so two pieces of the same model can differ.
How do I clean them?
Cloth or silver cleaner on the metal, no ultrasonic cleaning. Raw crystals keep internal flaws that cutting would have removed.
Read further
- Tourmaline instead of a diamond — the stone as a main stone.
- Amulets: meaning and symbolism — what people believed, and where belief ends.
- The Thorn Amulet, E-0528 — how the form came about.
- How silver patinates — what the darkening actually is.
