Green Jade Crystal Bracelet

Jade is the name two distinct minerals have shared for centuries - nephrite, a tough amphibole, and jadeite, a rarer pyroxene - both prized for the same dense, fine-grained toughness that let carvers work them without shattering. Both take the soft, waxy, slightly greasy polish that distinguishes jade from glassier green stones.

The colour here is green, even to mottled, sometimes veined or cloudy. The defining quality of true jade is toughness rather than hardness: an interlocking fibrous structure that resists breaking, which is why it was worked into blades and rings long before metal tools.

Many green stones have been carried under the name jade across its long history. What is offered here is a green ornamental stone of that tradition, chosen for the dense toughness and soft waxy polish described above.

Asked often

Is this nephrite or jadeite?
Both minerals are sold as jade, and both share the dense toughness and waxy polish that define the stone. This is a green ornamental stone of that tradition.

What makes jade different from other green stones?
Toughness. Jade’s interlocking fibrous structure resists breaking, and it takes a soft waxy polish rather than a glassy one - the qualities that let it be carved for thousands of years.

Is the colour natural?
Jade colour ranges naturally from white through many greens, and some jade in the trade is also dyed or colour-treated.

How do I care for it?
Wipe with a soft, slightly damp cloth and dry. Jade is tough in wear; keep the cord dry and avoid harsh chemicals and prolonged soaking.

1. Worn on either wrist, over the hand, on a durable elastic cord.
2. Feel the cool, dense weight and the waxy polish - the touch of jade.
3. Wipe with a soft, slightly damp cloth and dry.
4. Tough in wear - keep the cord dry; avoid harsh chemicals and long soaking.

Many traditions rinse or air their stones from time to time; that is a matter of preference, and the rest is yours.

The elastic cord lasts longest kept dry - remove before swimming, bathing, or applying scent. Do not soak.

• Stone: Green jade · nephrite or jadeite
• Character: Green · waxy polish · notably tough
• Band: Durable elastic cord
• Care: Wipe with a soft cloth · keep the cord dry

Jade holds a place in human culture that few materials approach. Across China it was worked for thousands of years and valued above gold, set into ritual objects, burial suits, and the seals of the state; across Mesoamerica the Olmec and Maya prized green jade above all other stones; and the Maori of New Zealand carved nephrite into treasured ornaments and tools. Three continents, the same green stone, independently held precious.

For its toughness and its colour jade was carried as a stone of constancy and good standing across these cultures - named here as what people believed. The lineage is documented and vast; what the green means to its wearer is theirs to decide.