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Myanmar
Jade jewelry come in
many variants
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We are focused on individual and small group trips throughout the country, tell us what you want via contact. |
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Popular are
jade bracelets and bangles, rings, pendants,
necklaces and earrings also have a good market. Every better jadeite
item is Myanmar jade also often defined as Chinese because they either smuggle or
export the rough jadeite from mines in northern Myanmar to China an
experts in carving will create something nice and pretty out of it.
Actually this is usually not done by carving but by drilling. |
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Most popular colors are lavender, white and green for gorgeous body
decoration. This type of jewelry is very popular among Chinese
women who interpret all kind of mystic ideas into the stone plus a
good portion of superstition.
This are usually stand alone pieces,
means there is no other material included. But sometimes yellow gold, white gold and silver is used
to create a special piece of art.
When browsing jade
shops
in cities such as Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Yangon, Hong
Kong and other in recent times (2012) a steep price hike of quality
jade compared to the last
few years is obvious, this is not the cheap stuff you can see at
Amazon and similar online shops. Since |
Green Jade Pendant |
people have more money in the pocket demand of the
green stone is soaring. Actually there is no real reason for that
because there is enough jadeite and even much
more nephrite.
Why Chinese People give such a high value to this
mineral? Because it has some mystic values which can’t be put into numbers
plus the art component because many objects for decoration are real
artwork.
Jewelry
is available in various forms; there is natural jade of various colors without any treatment beside of
washing with plum juice and using bee wax for polishing.
Another type is low quality material
is bleached and impregnated with polymer resin
plus treated with a hydrolysis process and undergoing a oxygenation treatment which is changing the physical
structure of the stone and create different colors it also enhances
translucency.
The worst is when combining the
process indicated before and add a dye session. The treated mineral
looks great for about three years after it will deteriorate, loose
color and actually can be thrown away, imagine you bought an
expensive bangle for let’s say $ 3000,- and its worthless after some
time? Means when buying jade jewelry it needs to be very careful. |
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White green jade Buddha pendant
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The more
translucent
jade is
the higher the the value. It is sometimes a real challenge for a jade
buyer to guess what could be in the stone he or she buys. It's not
possible to look into the stone which means a lot of experience and
luck is needed to select the the raw material to get a great piece
of jewelry out of it afterwards.
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This is
crucial when buying at an auction such as the Yangon emporium where most of
jadeite is sold on a worldwide scale, its a risky business. Some
seller cut the boulder to give a better insight, also
drilling into the stone is done frequently since really
nobody can look into.
Drilling is very
normal also when creating jewelry because jade carving
usually means drilling, there is no real carving, this is
already one of the hardest material on earth how to carve,
they drill.
In the age of
electric machines it works at a reasonable speed but imagine
how they created this items before, they used manual machine
moving the drill by a string back and forward this was one
of the reason why creating Chinese jade jewelry took always
a extreme long time, even today some Chinese artist use this
method. Some real beautiful and expensive objects are made
although with the stone the prices are usually always mainly
related to the quality of the material itself premium prices
are paid if a well known artist creates the object of desire
and the people are willing to do this extra price add on. |
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Jade jewelry
and
Myanmar Jade Bracelets
below |
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Here are
Jade
and
jadeite
items such as
bangles,
jade,
sculptures and more.
Jade jewelry store at Yangon’s
Bogyoke Market
the shopping
season is whole year around except Mondays and open hours are
10am to 5pm. There are plenty of interesting
things in this great oriental market and one
of them are all varieties of great jadeite
jewelry. The items on display are
overwhelming, there is no other market on
earth with such a lot of jade stores and
different items. On a place like this one
get aware what all is made out of the green
stone, today it is different to the last two
thousand years before.
Before jades were also used for household
items, daggers, knives, burial decoration
(Chinese) today its jewelry of all kind. Now
we visit this shopping center at Yangon’s
“high street” right in the center and get
mesmerized by all this beautiful and
sometimes quite exotic items in all possible
colors, shapes and forms. Colors are from
white to lavender, pink, yellow, green,
brown all the way to black which is rather
seldom.
The shelves are
full with real artwork, not all the time,
but often, there are jadeite pendants,
rings, necklaces, earrings, bangles and so
on. Expensive items are a Jade Buddha in
various forms and sizes, Hindu gods carved
from solid jades also in different colors,
white is common, lavender and green jade are
more expensive so are various statues which
got encrusted with ruby and gold dust, this
is real stuff, no imitation.
The question arising natural is how
to buy jade,
the
answer is simple, look for the
color, saturated emerald green is
best, check the translucency, the
more transparent the stone is the
better the quality and the higher
the price, take 10x magnifying lens
with to see cracks or other things,
it is common to hide this impurities
by injecting resin etc. but the
resin only holds for around two
years after the stone deteriorates
and the item is worthless and look
for the texture, is it fine or
coarse.
To bring it to the point,
if you intend to buy a jadeite item
up to around $ 300,- your careful
check will probably be enough. Over
this amount you need to take a
consultant with you who can be hired
on a hourly base. Because there are
so many tricks to make great looking
items out of |
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Jewelry Stores,
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low
quality one and this will only become
visible after around 2 to 3 years. Chinese
are very creative to pull you virtually over
the table. This is not so relevant in
Myanmar or Burma because the military acts
real harsh to crooks and that makes them
afraid but in countries like China,
Thailand,
Singapore etc. nobody really cares
when you get cheated. The thing a casual
buyer should understand, this guys have more
than 2000 years experience to manipulate
this green stones, they know what they do.
This quality Singapore jade
shop
has great items and is
trustworthy, they are
located in the mall of the
Sands Casino at Marina Bay. |
Singapore Jade Shop
at the Marina Sands Casino Mall,
it's expensive but pretty. |
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