Larimar Pendant in Gold

This is the first of the larimar stones that I designed/commissioned when I was in the Dominican Republic! DR is the only place in the world that larimar is found, and most of the stones that they export are nowhere near this quality. I found a stonecutter who must have had some top-shelf material. I drew some cabochon shapes for him one afternoon, and he met me the next morning with all of the stones cut and polished.

The stone is slightly translucent, which, combined with the wavy patterns, really looks like the bottom of the Caribbean sea. I set it with some gold filled wire, but that's boring compared to the stone's story.

The previous pieces I've made with larimar are here and here. You can see quite obviously that those don't have the same pizzazz that this stone has, though they are still pretty.


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