AmberWay.co.uk
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UK made gold and amber jewellery online shop
Description
Excerpted from the website:
- Amber is a fossil tree resin which become hard stone alike in many millions ears of temperature, pressure and time impact. Only few kinds of fossil resin are interesting as a gemological material: The Baltic amber, Romanian amber, Sicilian amber and materials from Burma, Mexico and Dominican republic.The Baltic amber is most common and popular because of its natural beauty and good quality as a lapidary material. In small village in Kaliningrad area (Russia) are being mined approx 80% of all world amber raw material, there are some of amber sources in Lithuania and Poland. Amber has been known from ancient times as a powerful medicine and a magic amulet stone. Some amber jewellery and animal sculptures are dated 450 000 years b.c.. Amber was widely known in ancient Greece, the blind poet Homer mentioned amber in his famous poem "Odyssey". In ancient Greece the amber was widely used in jewellery and decorative arts with gold and ivory. In Europe amber was used mostly as a amulet and medicine against wide range of i illnesses as a headache, toothache and stomach pain. In Asia almost every reach muslim had a prayer beads made of good quality amber.
Additional Information
The website provides interesting information about how to work with amber, it may be useful for the jewellers and craftsmen.
