Category: Tourmaline

August 30, 2026

Colour is where we begin, but never where we stop. A look at how Sookjai considers light, clarity, cut, character…

August 29, 2026

Tourmaline’s unusual proportions, colour zoning and optical character can make the gemstone itself the starting point for jewelry design—turning natural…

August 29, 2026

Tourmaline comes from many celebrated sources, but origin does not automatically determine beauty or quality. For most stones it adds…

August 29, 2026

Chrome tourmaline is known for intensely saturated green, but its story is more complex than its name suggests—bringing together chromium,…

August 29, 2026

Indicolite reveals a different side of blue tourmaline: iron-related colour that can range from violetish blue to greenish blue, shaped…

August 29, 2026

Rubellite sits at the richer end of tourmaline’s pink-to-red spectrum, but the boundary is not universally fixed. Understanding the name…

August 29, 2026

Paraíba tourmaline is famous for vivid blue-to-green colour often described as neon or electric. Its distinctive appearance begins with copper-related…

August 29, 2026

Watermelon tourmaline is famous for its pink centre and green outer zoning. The pattern is a visible record of one…

August 29, 2026

Bi-colour tourmaline can preserve two distinct colours within one continuous crystal. Its colour boundary can be a visible record of…

August 29, 2026

Tourmaline can appear in almost every colour because its crystal structure allows extraordinary chemical variation—and that chemistry can change while…