They are particularly popular with pre-teen and adolescent girls and with present-day hippies, deadheads or Rainbow Family participants. The smallest pattern, a double chain knot, requires two strings. The making of friendship bracelets is a version of macrame. Because of their versatility, they are worn by both males and females of all ages. The candystripe can have as few as three strings and as many as forty, based on pattern and thickness.

You may already know about the 4 Cs but there is an increasing awareness of the so called 5th C – Conflict Diamonds, especially since the release of the film The Blood Diamond featuring Leonardo di Caprio and Amnesty International’s campaign Are you looking for the perfect diamond. Every single item is exclusively designed to capture the imagination of young children today. Diamonds have a fantastic collection of silver and gold jewellery for every occasion.

Nowadays such a distinction is no longer made by the trade. Rare or unusual gemstones, generally meant to include those gemstones which occur so infrequently in gem quality that they are scarcely known except to connoisseurs, include andalusite, cassiterite and bixbite. Some minerals can be very beautiful, but they may be too soft and will scratch easily (such as the mineral fluorite). Fluorite is extremely colorful and pretty but has a hardness of only 4 on the hardness scale and has four perfect cleavage directions, which makes it only an oddity as a cut gem.

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