beading: Mookaite Jasper Necklaces

[jesse_the_k]

Mookaite Jasper comes from Western Australia, getting its name from Mooka Creek. It’s lightweight, takes a lovely polish, and comes in a delicious variety of colors: deep and pale burgundy, lavender, almost-black, and mustard yellow.

Here’s another fiddle-friendly necklace, featuring an owl pendant carved from mookaite jasper, hanging from a necklace of round and rice-shaped mookaite beads.

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This mookaite choker has three very long cigar-shape beads in front — they alternate with round and puffed-rice-shape — in shades of mustard, lilac, burgundy and mixtures

I learned a lot about mookaite from this miner's site: https://www.outbackmining.com/mookaite backup link

Comments

[lilysea]

Mookaite Jasper comes from Western Australia

Huh! I didn't know that, and I'm FROM Western Australia! ^_^

and have spent a fair bit of time in local rock/fossil shops

and local rock museums...

[jesse_the_k]

...but you've seen it, right?

[lilysea]

...maybe?

We have a lot of reddish brown to red rocks that we call "Jasper".

I've certainly seen Jasper, but can't say for sure that I've seen this SPECIFIC Jasper.

:)

[jesse_the_k]

Yeah, Jasper is a very large category, and I’ve seen it from white to black to green to lavender to hundreds of reds.

That you haven’t seen it makes its higher price make sense — costs 3 to 5 times what other jaspers do.

[lilysea]

My favourite local rock is tiger eye:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=tiger+eye+rock&t=ffnt&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images

[jesse_the_k]

I’m also a tiger eye fan! I grew up loving it in the yellow and black color way, and now I’ve seen some that’s blue — maybe dyed, hopefully hawks eye, which I just learned is a geological precursor to tiger eye:
https://www.gemselect.com/gem-info/hawks-eye/hawks-eye-info.php

Oooo! This link demonstrates the wild rainbow of jaspers
https://www.gemselect.com/jasper/jasper.php

[tarasacon]

Purty!

The owl makes me think about my Nana (grandmother). She collected owls.

I suspect would find the cigar beads deeply satisfying to fondle - my fingers like sliding along lengths of things.

Thanks

[jesse_the_k]

Those long beads are so smooth and silky -- it's definitely fondle friendly. Sadly, I've used up almost all my stock, so no more mookaite pics for a while.

[yourlibrarian]

Ooh, that owl is quite nice. And your second set, nice bead combo!

[jesse_the_k]

Thank you so much!

[sovay]

Here’s another fiddle-friendly necklace, featuring an owl pendant carved from mookaite jasper, hanging from a necklace of round and rice-shaped mookaite beads.

Thse are so nice! That owl has a lot of personality. And I'm not sure I had heard of mookaite before you started making these posts.

[jesse_the_k]

You're so kind.

Sadly, I've used up almost all my stock, so no more mookaite pics for a while.

[write_out]

Beautiful!

[jesse_the_k]

*blushes*

[sonia]

What a lovely little owl! I like your display too. I was wondering how you got such a nice photo on the last post.

[jesse_the_k]

My oldest pal has thrifting magic. She found that necklace stand, new-in-wrapping, at a garage sale somewhere -- and then remembered to give it to me!

Taking pictures of shiny things is really hard. My goal is documentation, not really marketing, and I think our kitchen skylight is responsible for any success.

[esteefee]

pretties!

[jesse_the_k]

Awww, thanks.

[sasha_feather]

These are so beautiful :D

[jesse_the_k]

<3 <3