Tiger’s eye bracelet. 100% natural, highly chatoyant 14mm tricolored tiger’s eye hand knotted bracelet! Also available without the knots!

*Note: Pendants shown are for demonstration only and are NOT included! You can purchase them in the pendants section of my shop.

*Note: The bracelet’s “default” is the upscale hand-knotted design, but I can make it without the knots if you prefer.

NOTICE: These are GENUINE gemstones! In addition to using genuine gemstones, I also use durable components that will last years longer than every elastic bracelet sold on Etsy, as elastic bracelets wear out quickly and break. So don’t think my lower prices mean lower quality - quite the opposite! They simply mean I don’t overvalue what I make, and that I offer my pieces at fair prices so that you can build up a genuine gemstone jewelry collection for yourself or for those you love!

I offer here an exquisite hand-knotted bracelet made with bold 14mm tiger’s eye beads and your choice of golden or silvery bracelet hardware. These beads are special, not just because of their large size but also because they are NATURALLY multicolored! The main colors are red, gold and bluish-gray with varying tones of each color! Some individual beads display multiple colors, and some show varying degrees of crystallization and chatoyance (glow). They are absolutely beautiful and are among my favorite beads simply because they are so unusual (although readily identifiable as tiger’s eyes). If you love tiger’s eye this bracelet will not disappoint 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’ll be honest - I’m not usually a big fan of tiger’s eye. I don’t hate it, but I find other gemstones more interesting and/or more beautiful. Tiger’s eye is also often dyed unnatural colors, and those to me look fakish because many are dyed vibrant colors that rarely exist in nature (such as purple). THESE tiger’s eye beads, however, grabbed me the moment I saw them! With their natural browns, reds, golds and bluish-grays, I find these tiger’s eyes absolutely stunning! “Perfect” tiger’s eye will display one to several sharp bands of light down the middle of round beads, creating a “cat’s eye” (or tiger’s eye!) effect. But in these beads you can see swirls, bands, patches and “stratas” of luminous color, demarcations where one color meets another in the same bead, and also areas of complete crystallization/opaqueness. I think they are fabulously interesting and lovely, so THESE tiger’s eyes get to be in my shop! So it’s nor a matter of loving tiger’s eye, but a matter of loving those stones specifically!

The lesson I took away from working with these beads is that even though I may think I don’t like something (as I don’t usually like tiger’s eye beads), it’s nonetheless good to keep an open mind because something might surprise me (like how strongly these beads appealed to me! That surprised me!)! If I think I have everything in life sorted out and I don’t leave an opportunity for my mind to be changed, I might miss out on something good! So as you wear your tiger’s eye bracelet, be mindful to stay flexible! You never know when something (or someone!) might surprise YOU!

Information about this gemstone: Tiger’s eye is an aggregate of chalcedony quartz with parallel intergrowths of quartz crystals and amphibole fibers. These intergrowths are responsible for the luminous glow (called “chatoyance”) that we see in tiger’s eye stones. When light enters the stone and hits the crystals and fibers it’s bounced, or “refracted”, back out of the stone, creating chatoyance. Natural colors of tiger’s are are due to the presence of iron oxide getting included as it forms. Tiger’s eye is a hardy gemstone, ranking 7 out of 10 on the Mohs Scale of Mineral Hardness. Its durability is one reason that it’s used widely in jewelry applications, as it’s not easily cracked or chipped. Tiger’s eye is a favorite of stone carvers for this same reason, so it’s often carved into familiar shapes and statuettes. Because quartz is the most abundant mineral in nature, tiger’s eye forms in many geographical locations, including 

Fun facts: Although the hardness of tiger’s eye is ranked on the Mohs Scale of Mineral Hardness, it is not a mineral at all! Rather, it is a form of metamorphic rock (rock that began in whole or in part as a different mineral or element). Ancient civilizations associated this gemstone with strength and bravery, including ancient Rome. Roman soldiers wore amulets or artifacts made from tiger’s eye into battle! A rarer form of gray tiger’s eye is called “hawk’s eye” and contains a form of blue asbestos. There’s yet another form called “eagle’s  eye”, also known as Pierersite, which is a combination of tiger’s eye and hawk’s eye!