Genuine Bluegreen Moss Spiderweb Turquoise Sterling Silver Cluster Bracelet.

This Genuine Bluegreen Moss Spiderweb Turquoise Sterling Silver Cluster Bracelet is full of natural character. This is jewelry art at its finest. This bracelet features a traditional southwestern American Indian design made from a large hand cut oval cabochon of genuine Bluegreen Moss Spiderweb Turquoise surrounded by smaller circular cabochons. This Turquoise offers this sensational bracelet its natural blue-green hues and dazzling matrix. Each cab of this Turquoise has been set in a hand cut bezel that was soldered to the Sterling Silver cuff. Turquoise and Sterling Silver, you can't go wrong with that. Native American jewelry artists of the southwest often use Turquoise in their work to honor the Father Sky. Hand twisted Sterling Silver wires and individually hand made Sterling Silver dots offer this bracelet extra ornamentation. It is 2-3/8" wide. It'll fit a 6-1/2" to a 7-1/2" wrist. Stamped Sterling and Signed made in our shop by Verna Blackgoat.

Turquoise, the robin's egg blue gemstone worn by Pharaohs and Aztec Kings, is probably one of the oldest gemstones known. Yet, only its prized blue color, a color so distinctive that its name is used to describe any color that resembles it, results in its being used as a gemstone. Turquoise has been, since about 200 B.C., extensively used by both southwestern U.S. Native Americans and by many of the Indian tribes in Mexico. The Native American Jewelry or "Indian style" jewelry with turquoise mounted in or with silver is relatively new. Some believe this style of Jewelry was unknown prior to about 1880, when a white trader persuaded a Navajo craftsman to make turquoise and silver jewelry using coin silver. Prior to this time, the Native Americans had made solid turquoise beads, carvings, and inlaid mosaics. Recently, turquoise has found wide acceptance among people of all walks of life and from many different ethnic groups.