Published on February 14, 2012
Our designers at The Natural Sapphire Company are always looking for new and exciting ways to display the beauty of natural sapphires. With spring coming, we were inspired to create a new collection order money more info here to emphasize the organic and natural beauty of rough sapphire crystals. Our new collection includes four spectacular...
Read MorePublished on September 29, 2010
Antique jewelry designs have become increasingly popular amongst consumers over the past few years. The intricate Antique style designs on the basket and detailed work on the shanks make for a perfect complement to our beautiful natural sapphires. So it is my pleasure to introduce some of our new setting options that have recently become...
Read MorePublished on August 2, 2010
While browsing through our inventory last month for my post about natural untreated rubies, I came across a lovely deep red ruby, U3216. A lot of the time customers tell us that they saw a sapphire that was just too good to pass up. Now I know that I’m not immune to that impulse either!...
Read MorePublished on February 24, 2010
The Natural Sapphire Company specializes in making custom jewelry settings, and in customizing our own preexisting semi mountings to best meet the customer’s vision. One of our customers recently bought a natural blue sapphire ring from us. This blue sapphire ring was based on JS217 but our customer asked us to make a few changes...
Read MorePublished on February 18, 2010
Women are complex creatures … or so we’ve been told. Whenever we think of getting ourselves a piece of jewelry, especially beautiful and colorful natural sapphires, we consider many details, such as: will this sapphire color compliment my skin tone? Does it this particular sapphire color and shape goes well with the jewelry design I...
Read MorePublished on February 5, 2010
White gold, palladium, or platinum? It can be hard to pick and choose between the three precious white metals (if you like yellow or rose gold, you’re in the clear – there aren’t really any serious alternative alloys out there). So let’s run down the list and see what their various virtues are, to help you...
Read MorePublished on February 2, 2010
We’re about to launch a new system for our jewelry suggestions. Here at The Natural Sapphire Company, we do a lot of custom work. Through this service, we produce custom jewelry pieces for customers; blue sapphire rings, and red ruby pendants, yellow sapphire earrings, you name it; from the choice of the stone to the...
Read MorePublished on January 28, 2010
You know what really irritates me? When a story needs to assume a wholly unrealistic condition in order to exist. I’m not talking about speculative fiction: assume away with your FTL transport and your parallel universes! Have a party with your elves and your unicorns! No, I’m talking about the social assumptions that seem to...
Read MorePublished on January 27, 2010
At the most basic level, a wedding band is a metal hoop. Depending on the local culture, it is worn on the base of the right or the left ring finger. But the symbolism of the ring … that’s considerably more complex. The wedding ring symbolizes marriage: spouses wear them to indicate their commitment to...
Read MorePublished on January 25, 2010
White sapphire is a little different from blue sapphire, pink sapphire, yellow sapphire, papadrascha sapphire and ruby, because whereas with all of those stones their color is their main selling point … with white sapphire, it’s absence of color is its main attraction! White sapphires complement jewelry designs of various bents, and coordinates beautifully with...
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