Black Jade Necklace New Zealand

It is known as cowell jade and comes in a range of colours from deep jet black through pale grey and a myriad of beautiful blue greens.

Black jade necklace new zealand.

New zealand greenstone is called pounamu in the maori language. We ve dedicated our lives to crafting pounamu necklaces and jewellery by hand here in new zealand. We carve greenstone necklaces earrings bracelets rings and art based on maori design. In 1965 black jade was discovered by a farmer on his property at cowell on the eyre peninsula in south australia.

Greenstone jade maori jewelry we spell it jewellery here in new zealand is maori designs created out of greenstone jade. 4 5 out of 5 stars 292 292 reviews 40 00. Largest range of jade products specialising in traditional nz designs. New jade smooth shaped pendant gemstone worry thumb stone necklace corded crystal jewellery sparklymonkeyco.

It s a type of nephrite jade also found in canada and russia. This collection contains our wide selection of handcrafted new zealand jade jewellery. In the featured artists galleries you will see some very unusual and unique designs including some very special pieces featuring rare and stunning examples of new zealand jade pounamu or greenstone along with some stunning and exotic bone pearl and other carvings or artworks. Nephrite jade ranges in colour from a very pale green to a very dark almost black jade.

We have pendants beads earrings bracelets bangles rings cufflinks charms keyrings and phone straps along with superb jade carvings and figurines for the jade lovers in new zealand and abroad. We also sell international jade from around the world. We have a small range of gorgeous carvings hand made in new zealand. Ariki also offers an extensive nephrite jade jewellery collection including kiwi brooches and maori jewellery pendants.

Unlike most of our new zealand competitors we have a proud history of being a new zealand based manufacturer employing new zealanders to produce products for sale in new zealand overseas and online. Scroll down and you can view the individual jade necklaces and pendants that we have available for sale. Maori knew how to craft this hard rock into beautiful jewellery and implements. From shop sparklymonkeyco.

New zealand jade is often referred to as greenstone or pounamu. Local artists carve all of our pendants and necklaces from the highest quality new zealand jade.