Rainbow moonstone bracelet, hand knotted with high quality 9-10mm beads! The solid sterling silver moonstone pendant is *optional*.

NOTICE: These are GENUINE gemstones! In addition to using genuine gemstones, I also use durable components that will outlast every elastic bracelet on the market. Elastic bracelets will wear out quickly and break, whereas my bracelets will give you years of wear!

Note: I can make this bracelet for you without the stainless steel pendant hanger. Simply choose “no pendant hanger” from the options that populate when you select your length and add “no pendant hanger” to your cart ($0). And although only silver stainless steel bracelet hardware is shown, you can choose yellow gold plated if you prefer it!

I am pleased to present my VERY FIRST hand-knotted moonstone bracelet! This bracelet features 9mm-10mm beads, stainless steel components, a double strand of woven silk and polyester Chinese knotting string (which is FAR superior to elastic string because it’s stronger and is much more durable!)! Snug aand meticulous knots are hand-tied between each bead, which not only add further strength to the bracelet but also present a unique and aesthetically appealing design element! I am very proud of this bracelet, as I launched my first shop in early 2024 on a different selling platform because of THIS bracelet! From there you can see by my offerings that I went hog-wild, adding many more gemstone options and bracelet designs, as well as pendants to wear on my bracelets if you so choose!

The seafoam green knotted bracelet is THE original, but I offer this design also in your choice of thread color - just message me the color string you want (see pics for available colors)! If you add optional gemstone pendants, the combinations that can be created from this original design are boundless! Go crazy, choose a raucous string color, order more than one pendant for your bracelet, stick with the original design (moonstone beads with a moonstone pendant) - customize your bracelet to be what YOU want it to be! I intend my shop to be a place where you can learn about different gemstones, buy high-quality jewelry items at fair prices and just have fun! So even if you’re here just to browse or learn, I warmly welcome you!

“If it’s not good enough for me, then it’s not good enough for my customers. If I wouldn’t wear it, it doesn’t belong in my shop.” - Heather Constable 

Why I Love It:

I love the soft glow that emanates from within this stone, and just as moonstone holds secrets within it, I find life lessons within the qualities and characteristics of this gemstone. Some moonstone beads in my jewelry pieces have very small spots of leftover matrix (matrix is the rough rock in which the stone was embedded and from which it was mined). I actually prefer to craft my moonstone pieces with less-than-perfect beads, because as I select each stone’s place in a particular piece I am reminded that life is beautiful despite its “flaws”. And just like moonstone, we may have come from a rough beginning, but every one of us is valuable and precious for our inherent and uniquely individual qualities! My hope is that you will be reminded of your own intrinsic value every time you wear your moonstone jewelry, and that you will not think of your imperfections as flaws but as beautiful inclusions that make you precious and one-of-a-kind!

Information About This Gemstone: Most people are familiar with this captivating gemstone and know it by its common name, moonstone, but its mineral name is adularia. Natural moonstone occurs in many different shades, but all moonstone is always rich in feldspars, which are the transparent to lightly colored mineral “building blocks” of the rock creation process. The feldspars interweave as moonstone forms and are responsible for this coveted gemstone’s distinctive shimmer. When ultraviolet rays from the sun are reflected off the feldspar inclusions and into the human eye a mesmeric glowing effect is produced (an effect mineralogists define as “adularescence”). The finest moonstone specimens are colorless and completely transparent and harken from Sri Lanka and southern India, and due to their clarity and  rarity can fetch over a thousand dollars per carat! 

While I use very nice quality moonstones in my jewelry pieces they are not $1,000 per carat specimens, but they nonetheless have the telltale adularescence that makes them instantly identifiable as moonstones. White moonstone bracelets are almost always strung on clear or white elastic string, but I prefer to use pastel string because it complements the stones themselves. More importantly, using colored string really makes their glow “pop” because light enters the stones, gets blocked by the opaque pigments in the thread and is deflected back through the stones, which amplifies and showcases their beauty!

I absolutely love all stones that produce an “essence” - adularescence, labradorescence, opalescence, etc. However, the natural inclusions in these prized and valuable “essence” gemstones that give them their beauty also give them a weaker molecular structure compared to some other gemstones. Mineralogists use the Mohs Hardness Scale to rank minerals and gemstones from 1 to 10 according to their susceptibility to damage from a harder mineral. Moonstone ranks squarely at 6 on the Mohs Hardness Scale, making it more durable than tooth enamel and a traditional pane of glass (both 5 ), approximately as durable as opal, but not as durable as diamond (a solid 10). For this reason you should treat your moonstone jewelry with relative care and avoid collisions with hard objects, although you can otherwise wear it on a daily basis with no special precautions.

Fun facts: Although white moonstone is closely related to labradorite, it is NOT “white labradorite” as some people think (which is why you will sometimes see white moonstone mistakenly sold as “white labradorite”). While both gemstones are categorized in the feldspar family, they have different mineral compositions. Moonstone is composed of two types of feldspars called orthoclase and albite, whereas labradorite is composed of the feldspars anorthrosite and albite. Gem quality moonstone is semitransparent to transparent, whereas labradorite is always opaque (having no degree of transparency). Lastly, as mentioned above the glow of moonstone is called “adularescence”, whereas the blue, purple, green, red, gray, brown and/or golden glow of labradorite is called “labradorescence”.