Hand-carved

Red Jasper Tower

A hand-carved red jasper point, brick red with darker veining.

  • Natural red jasper, undyed
  • Iron oxide colours it right through
  • Opaque, which gives the even polish
  • Hard and uncleaved: it takes handling

Price range: $14.90 through $25.90

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Light, but not full sun

The faces take the light one at a time, so a point on a shelf changes through the day. Keep it out of direct sun though: amethyst and rose quartz both fade.

Named, treatment and all

Undyed is written undyed. Where the colour comes from a metal coating, the page says so, because that is the part nobody else tells you.

No two points alike

Banding, colour zoning, a tip a degree off centre. That unevenness is what tells you it is stone and not resin, and it is why yours is yours.

Frequently asked questions

What is red jasper?

An opaque, fine-grained quartz coloured by iron oxide. Unlike transparent quartz it shows no internal structure, which is why it takes such an even polish.

Why does the colour vary between pieces?

Because the iron content varies through the deposit. Brick red, brown-red and darker veining all occur, often within one piece.

Is it durable?

Yes, more so than most display stones - jasper is hard and has no cleavage planes, so it tolerates handling well.

What is red jasper traditionally associated with?

Grounding and stability, in the crystal literature. We report the association; we make no claim about effect.

Cut from rough, not grown

A tower starts as a block of rough stone. It is sawn to a rough shape, ground to its faces, then polished by hand through finer and finer grits. The faces are never perfectly equal and the point is rarely perfectly centred - that unevenness is what tells you it is stone and not resin.

A polished amethyst point on linen, its hand-ground faces visibly unequal in width

What the colour is telling you

Some of these stones are exactly what they look like. Others are quartz with a metal coating applied under heat, which is where the iridescent blues and violets come from. Neither is a lesser stone, but only one of them is a natural colour, and we say which is which on every listing.

A natural amethyst point beside a quartz point with an iridescent metal coating, under the same light
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Red Jasper Tower Price range: $14.90 through $25.90