Garnets

The Garnet: aren’t these the semi-precious stones of a splendid garnet-red which were utilized in the ancient times? Of course that it’s true, because the warm dark red color is the most spread color among the garnet.

Few people know that the variety of garnet covers a lot of brilliant and beautiful colors. The traditional image of the garnet was wisely transformed in spectacular discovering, especially in Africa. Evan if the red colors keep the majority color, the garnet are easily adapted to the new scales of colors in fashion thanks to the various available scale of colors. There is green garnet, of a flat-yellow color to a brilliant one, of an orange color to the dark-sallow color. The only nuance which is not available for the garnet is blue. The garnet illuminated the Noah’s Ark. The Garnet was known all over the world of thousands of years. It was said that Noah has used the garnet light to steer the Ark in the darkness of the night.

The garnet was founded in the jewelry of Egypt, Greece and Antique Rome. These were worn as protection by the courageous discoverers and travelers being considered talismans and protective semi precious stones. It was believed that they illuminated in the night and protected by the person who it of the Devil. The brightness of the Garnet is given by the light reflection.

If you like the Indian summer naturalness of warm colors certainly you will fall in love of garnet. Nowadays the garnet are bringing from Africa and the South America.

The garnet attraction is given by the natural beauty, by the variety of colors and their magnificent glow.
If you have a jewel with garnet you can be sure that you will enjoy this nature gift.

The necklace discovered by the Al.Bratianu, named by as Drobeta, is composed of mail coat type D. On every link is hanged up a pendant composed of identical mail coats, but little provided with spherical wattle of garnets in alternation, not all the time being regulated, with others from emerald. The mail coats are continued with very little willow leaves of gold or silver leaflet. The necklace has also a pendant- medallion, type amphora. It is worked of gold leaflet, decorated with embed, garnet and emerald stones and the anticline’s stones are realized in au-repose, imitating the motif of the twisted thread. Their shape is different: seven anticlines are round inserting the garnet and emerald stones.

The necklace from Vienna has wallet of emerald and garnets. It is similarly to the Moesia Superior piece but also to Inferior Moesia. All types of necklace with pendants in Superior Moesia are more varied.
The pendants in type of leaf, hanged up of a chain with a mail coats help have some similarity with those from the Palaca cemetery and with those from the Santana Mures cemetery.

It is said that gems have their own soul, that they have extraordinary properties and they help you be connected with other dimensions and discover hidden forces of your spirit and in the same time purify your body and soul and mind as well. Gems can concentrate amazing amounts of positive energy able to protect not only a person, but a whole community too. A lot of stories and legends are related to gems and most of them contain a bit of truth.