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Kat House Designs specializes in Southwest Style Jewelry and Funky Chunky Jewelry.
We have hundred's of original designs from casual to formal.
We offer our own designs and we will make a design to your order.
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Personal
Turquoise jewelry is a pleasure to wear and enjoy and most pieces just get better with the years. Your appreciation for your turquoise will only increase as it becomes 'yours' and takes on your spirit and energy. As your love for your turquoise grows, you will find that you will choose to wear it for yourself first, and last for how it looks to others.
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Sky Stone
Native Americans had as many different words for turquoise as there were languages spoken. However, many of the words translated into English as the "sky stone," evoking the sky-blue shade of the stone most commonly found. Native Americans had been working turquoise mines with stone mauls and antler picks for centuries before the arrival of the Europeans. Most often, in the Southwest, the stone was carved into beads (heishi), fetishes, or overlaid onto wood, bone, or shell. The use of silver as a mounting for turquoise dates no earlier than ca 1890.
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Value
Down through the ages and especially now, fine gems and jewelry have been a commodity more stable than money. In other words it is and always has been a good investment. We must realize that turquoise is a finite resource, one that is becoming more rare every day, more so than diamonds or gold and its value will only go up. There are no bargains in top quality turquoise. Natural American turquoise has the longest known history of human use and enjoyment of any gemstone in North America. A turquoise has character if its appearance is so characteristic of a particular mine that it’s source can be easily identified. Few gemstones have such variety in appearance as to have individual character or "personality" based on the source mine. A main general rule in evaluating the price of a turquoise jewelry piece is to establish the excellence of color and 'Zat': that hard-to-describe heavenly quality that reveals the Life in the Stone. The size of a single piece, or the total weight of the related pieces, increases not only the price but also the value of the aggregate. Finished turquoise gem stones are bought and sold by the carat. Price per carat can run to well over a hundred dollars per carat for extra fine specimen pieces.
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