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-Jade Jewelry is real beautiful and mythical, especially with Chinese people.

There are all kind of different jade items such as antique jade jewelry, black jade jewelry, Myanmar or Burma jade jewelry. The most popular jade jewelry is green jade jewelry, lavender jade jewelry and white jade jewelry.

Carved jade jewelry comes in all variants, as amulets and jade pendant jewelry usually depicting a Buddha image. Chinese jade jewelry is very popular as jade bangle jewelry, gold jade jewelry and green jade jewelry. Blue jade jewelry is found in Guatemalan and Honduran jade jewelry shops, already the Maya and Olmecs made blue jade jewelry.

Imperial jade jewelry is real special and can fetch high prices, in particular when the jade jewelry shows a high degree of translucency. But it is necessary to be careful when buying jade and jewelry, jade bead jewelry, jade Buddha jewelry, jade dragon jewelry and other since sometimes technical means are used to make a highly valued piece of jade jewelry out of a a poor quality jade jewelry. To enhance jade jewelry some chemicals are injected into the piece of jade. Means finally jade jewellery get the desired look und value. This is popular in China and also Myanmar or Burma. A normal jade buyer who takes the jade jewelry form the store is not able to recognize it. If you intend to buy a great jade bangle jewelry or other jade jewelry over about $ 1000,- take a expert with you to be protected. Jade jewelry is very popular in China and Myanmar or Burma. At the jade stores in Yangon’s Bogyoke market beautiful jade jewelry necklace, jade jewelry rings and complete jade jewelry sets are on display. Actually this is the premier jade bazaar

in the world. One can also find jade Buddha jewelry and statues of up to 2 meter high, there are also mythical Chinese

figures from lavender jade and green jade, sometimes also white jade.

The jade jewelry store at Bogyoke Market at Yangon also offer jade jewelry wholesale. Actually all this jade jewelry is amazingly cheap if not absolute top notch imperial jade jewelry is demanded. There are other jade markets at Yangon, Myanmar. A very interesting jade market is at Mae Sot in Thailand at the border to Myanmar or Burma. Everyday the people smuggle jade items and jade jewelry into Thailand from Myanmar, the border is quite open.

On the main road at Mae Sot are dozens of jade jewelry stores and shops, including specialists to evaluate the jade if needed. They usually take the jade jewelry and go analyze is using a small torchlight.

The Mae Sot jade market with dozens of jade shops runs along the main street and all kind of jade jewelry is on display such as jade pendant jewelry, jade ring jewelry, jade stone jewelry, jadeite jewelry and jewelry""jade.

The items are manly lavender jade jewelry, pink jade jewelry, red jade jewelry, silver jade jewelry and yellow jade jewelry, there are also cheap jade items just sold at the street. All is quite cheap, a genuine jade bangle jewelry start at $ 5,- and even this looks quite impressive and you can be sure its pure jade because for such a low price no one start a fake process, it would be to costly

-Most raw material for green jade jewelry comes from Myanmar or Burma.

Said a jade jewelry buyer from Taiwan at Yangon Emporium: “I am only here to look at jade stone and jade jewelry , because my customers back home prefer it to other gemstones”.

figures and jade elephant plus jade dragon jewelry and other mythical jade jewelry carvings. Other jade jewelry items are amulets, knives and plenty of other. Metal in jade jewelry is somehow important since it allows light to return from the stone and increase reflection

-Many Chinese believe

that if a person wears jade jewelry and is involved in an accident, the jade jewelry will be broken but its wearer will be protected. For the Chinese jade is "the quintessence of heaven and earth," even surpassing diamonds

The Chinese came to think of jade as being of supernatural origin, and made all kind of jade jewelry and carved jade jewelry out of it, hence as something that might be used to promote intercourse with heaven and propitiate the heavenly powers. Traditionally they associate jade with their five cardinal virtues: charity, modesty, courage, justice and wisdom.

Philosophers taught that imperial jade, swallowed under the right conditions, would confer the ability to live for thousands of years, the power of rendering oneself invisible, and the ability to fly. There are, of course, few who continue to hold to such beliefs about jade jewelry, but they do serve to indicate the high esteem in which jade jewelry was held for centuries among the Orientals. But aside from the superstitions attaching to jade and jade

Although China has long been the emporium for art objects fashioned in jade jewelry, this material in its natural state is seldom found in China.

Jade was imported from other countries, notably Myanmar or Burma. But now nephrite comes mainly from New Zealand, and jadeite is found mainly in Myanmar.

Jade is also often found in riverbeds where it has been washed down from the mountains. It is also quarried from mountains, but the Chinese have a preference for riverbed jade. Usually we think of jade jewelry as having a bright spinach-green color. However, it comes in a variety of colors ranging from pure white, through yellow, red, and blue to black which all is the right material to create beautiful jade jewelry.

-Identifying Genuine Jade

Since there are many stones that bear a strong resemblance to jade, how can we know when we have the real thing?

If you wanted to buy a piece of jade jewelry and avoid the imitations that are passed off as genuine, the easiest way would be to have an expert determine the question.

Two things in particular make raw jade and jade jewelry unique: its density and its hardness. Its density or specific gravity refers to the ratio of its weight to an equal volume of water.

Jadeite has a specific gravity of 3.4 or slightly less, nephrite of about 3.0. Thus a piece of nephrite jade weighing three ounces would be of the same volume as one ounce of water. Hardness determinations are based on the simple principle that a harder material will scratch a softer one, and never vice versa. So, to test a piece of jade we would need, for example, a topaz. If it made no impression on the stone, then it must be genuine jade. Something simpler is to take a steel penknife or pin and scratch or prick the stone. It is impossible to make any impression on the real jade in this way, but most imitations, such as soapstone, would be marked. Of course, it is not advisable to go around indiscriminately scratching or pricking other people's art objects. If, however, you really have reason to apply this test, there is often an inconspicuous place, say, at the back or on the base of an object, where you can try it out, and if it is genuine jade no harm can be done. Glass, also, can be treated to look very much like jade, but a piece of glass would weigh

considerably less than jade of the same bulk.

The price of jade jewelry varies tremendously. More is involved than just the intrinsic value of a piece. Color, shape, quality and especially age and golden Myanmar play important roles. In 1960 a piece of carved Chinese jade jewelry was sold at auction for over $16,000.

In 1860 a British expedition to Peking sacked the Emperor's Summer Palace and carried off many of his magnificent jades. If one sees an object today marked "from the Summer Palace, Peking," then one can be assured of excellent quality, if the tag is telling the truth.

Jade jewelry prices vary around the world, too. In Hong Kong a jade can be obtained for as little as $4. In Myanmar or Burma, the main source of Jade this days, one can get a very pretty Jade bangle for about $ 10,- in the Bogyoke Aung Sang market in Yangon or Rangoon. But in Europe and America higher prices for jade jewelry usually prevail. A foremost jade manufacturer of Hong Kong is quoted as saying that if a stone is too dark, say, moss green, or too light, with much yellow tint, that is the sign of an inferior stone.

The quality jade jewelry is lush green, vibrant, with a lot of shine in it. It must not be mottled; rather, almost translucent.

-The Production of Jade Jewelry

The working of jade jewelry is a long, slow, laborious task--one at which the Chinese are

the acknowledged masters. In one Peking jade jewelry workshop craftsmen worked continuously day and night in shifts and still took many years to complete one piece of jade jewelry. For two centuries at least their methods to create jade jewelry have been unchanged. But how do they go about the job?
The first thing we must know about the matter is that jade jewelry is not carved. Rather, it is drilled and ground. Boulders of jade are cut into pieces of suitable size by means of a saw. Because of the hardness of jade its surface must be kept constantly coated with a moistened abrasive of some material harder than itself. Thus, in fact, the abrasive does the cutting and not the saw.

Jade boulders are sawn first from the top, and then from the bottom, but such is the skill of the workmen that the place where the two cuts merge is practically invisible. From this point the method to be employed depends on the jade jewelry object being made. Holes are made with a primitive, hand-operated diamond drill. A hollow 

steel tube is used for shaping the inside of jade vases; abrasive and water are again introduced and the tube is rotated until the desired depth is reached. Then the unwanted section down the center of the jade vase is given a smart tap to make it come  away. If an unnoticed flaw in the jade causes the center trunk to break short of the desired place, the stump remaining will have to be drilled away.

Some jade vases get a handle on the side, and from this handle another ring of jade may be fixed, looking rather like an earring on a pierced ear. That ring was originally one piece with the vase and was drilled away by the craftsman until it hung free. Entire chains of such rings are sometimes made from one stone.

Bowls are hollowed out by making a series of parallel, vertical cuts close together down into the solid piece of jade, leaving a series of raised leaves that are then chipped away. The bowl and almost all other jade jewelry is finished by being ground with shaped disks of steel and the usual abrasive. Final polishing of jade jewelry is accomplished with revolving disks of wood or leather and a special powder.-

- Jade as a material to create art, jewelry and  crafts.

A piece of greenish-white jade weighing 640 pounds having been brought into Peking, Emperor Ch'ien Lung ordered it to be fashioned into a representation of a mountain landscape. The job was completed in 1874--a beautiful work of art, a mountain with streams, trees, pavilions, bamboo groves, peopled with literary scholars of the fourth century. Even larger scenes with jade stone were reproduced by the Peking craftsmen. However, this particular one may be viewed

At one time jade was even used for making tools, but the advent of metal made for more effective tools.

- Jade jewelry has a special significance in the Chinese culture.

Jade is sometimes referred to as the "Eastern Diamond". Jade is a mythical gemstone that is simply beautiful but also for the various beliefs associated
Green Jade Statue	with it. There are people who interpret into Jade super natural abilities. More realistic are beautiful jade sculptures. Jade defined are two different minerals, jadeite or nephrite. Both variations of jade are tough stones that don't break or chip easily. Their chemical properties are similar but they differ primarily in their sodium and calcium-magnesium properties. Traditionally jade for jewelry is found in variants of green. But jade occurs in other colors such as pink, lavender and white. White jade is predominantly found in Myanmar or Burma but in 2009 there is practically only one major source of jade left and this is Myanmar. Variants of jade, in particular Chinese jade are very often from Myanmar either exported legally, or most of the time exported illegally. The properties of iron and manganese provide most of the color variations in jade jewelry and jade objects like this Green Jade Statue pictured left. Imperial Jade is the transparent emerald-green stone, which contains chromium. It is
the most rare of all jade. An intense green color combined with translucence is the hallmark of good quality jade. If Jade has a good combination of quality and translucency it can fetch high prices similar to rubies and emeralds. Sometimes bad qualities of jade are dyed green by some crooks. It is advisable to purchase jade jewelry from reputed stores. Green glass stones and some other natural stones are used as imitations of jadeite. There are several things that determine the value of jade. First, jade stones are sold per piece and not per carat. Its texture, pattern and translucency also play a vital role in determining its value. Historically, jade was considered more valuable than gold or silver. Today carat for carat jadeite is more valuable than diamond. Jade jewelry are exquisite pieces of jewelry ranging from bangles, beads and earrings to belt buckles,

hairpins plus pendants. There are jade carvings that exhibit figures, statues and sculptures of Buddha as well as animals like elephants and mythical creatures. You can also find jade articles such as pendants. The metal in jade jewelry allows light to return from the stone and increase reflection.

Jade jewelry available in many shopping centers with some jewelry shops and on the internet. Probably the best jade jewelry deals one can get at the source and the source is Myanmar jade at various shops mainly in Yangon Myanmar. The shops carry jade items with different styles and colors. To find the right products needs a excellent raw materials and the best raw materials for almost any jade color except blue is available in Myanmar, 

very sensitive since everyone know there are no standards, jade in recent years is a take it or leave it product mainly driven by the optical appearance.

In recent years the market for jade jewelry got a real boost because of the rapid economic development in China and Chinese people like jade. Myanmar raw jade and carved jade is pouring into China, actually the best processing of jade into various items and artwork is probably done in China. The Chinese workshops employ over a million of people pumping out jade items for the domestic market and export. The Chinese jade carver and other workshops process nearly ten thousand tons of imperial jade. Because of this huge amount of jade turnover in China alone Myanmar where most of the jadeite is coming from is facing a depletion of raw jade sooner or later, that means jade prices will climb higher.