Red Jasper Palm Stone Resin Discovery plain in shade and lit

plain in shade and lit to bronze-gold in direct light - two stones in one

Rest it from strong sun

The resin melts into the bundle and chars to deep red on the dish

and enhancing physical well-being

kept by the cooperative in Loreto

Red Jasper Palm Stone Resin Discovery plain in shade and litRed jasper an opaque brick red chalcedony coloured through by iron, carved into seals and amulets since the earliest civilisations. Solid and earthy, with the heft of fired clay. From India, a palm stone. It is the opaque cousin of carnelian the same iron coloured chalcedony, but so densely included that no light passes, reading as deep, even terracotta sometimes crossed by darker veining. Its name descends through Latin and Greek from older words