Necklaces · Opaque brick-red to orange-red cabochon with a cream-and-tan vein and… · Silver-tone wire
Brick-Red Oval with Cream Vein
✶ Aries · Scorpio
Fire · Doing the difficult thing
$74
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Reds and oranges
Brick, rust, orange-red and salmon — warm from across the room, old from up close.
Warm stone reads from a distance in a way no other colour does. Brick red especially: it looks warm from across a room and looks old from a foot away, which is a strange and good combination in something you are wearing to work.
A little of it goes a long way, so the reds tend to end up in the small pieces — a bead set into a ring, a short teardrop, two red beads offset on a bend of wire. You can wear red on your hand on a plain day without building an outfit around it, and that is most of the appeal.
Orange in particular is the colour people pick up when they want to feel started rather than finished. Not celebratory. Closer to the feeling of having finally opened the thing you have been avoiding.
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4 pieces, each of them the only one of itself.
Necklaces · Opaque bright orange-red freeform stone with fine dark hairline markings · Silver-tone wire
Orange-Red Teardrop with Double Spiral
✶ Aries · Leo
Fire · Everyday colour
$48
Rings · Small opaque red-orange round beads · Brass-tone wire
Two Red Beads on a Curve
✶ Aries · Leo
Fire · Courage
$44
Rings · Small translucent warm-orange round bead · Mixed warm and cool wire
Twin Spirals with an Orange Bead
✶ Leo · Libra
Fire · Balance
$44
This page describes colour and form and doesn't name a stone. Here's why that is, and the rest of the notes are there too.