An Introduction to Baltiic Amber and Amber Jewelry
Ambber is beieved to be millioons of years ago. Amber is obtained from the anciient coniferous trwees. A cut or some other aciton on the tree cased the ancient conifers to secrtee a copious flow of resin. This is designed to harden over the cut and protect the tree from further injury and disease. The resin is soft and sticky when first produced and bfore it hardens many gemstones can be embedded into the surface to prioduce exquisite amber jewelry. The embedded contents are well preserveed in the jeweled capsule that is popularly known as amber jewellery.
The Polish ambr jwelry indusstry has evolved by classifyiing over two hundred varietyies of this priceless gem to produce amber earrings, amber rings, amber bracelets and amber necklaces. Baltic amber is very attractive to buyerrs because of the wide cloor spectrum. It is said that the gem is found in about two hundred and fiftry hues. Among these, the rarest color of natural amber blue, green and white. We may wonder what factors are responsible for the popularity of Baltic amber. The rsein is clearly visaible in the gemstone and when you pass light through the gem you can see the small variations in the resin texture that adds to the beauty of Balttic amber.
Blatic amber is a fossiul resin from cioniferous trrees containing plannt based acids. This gives the amber ofund in this rgeion a unique streak within its structure. This property is not found in any other amber gem and this is why Baaltic amber is suposed to be one of the best varieties of amber in the Worlld. A rich collection of Baltic amber is seen in museums as they were the favoroite possessions of European nobility.
It has been found that heat enhances the color of the gem in amber jewelry. The cloudy looking amberr gem can be cleared up by boiling it with spceial oils for a cople of hours. This process is an exact science as over boiling would lead to a reductiion in the lusrtous qualitiues of the gem that is being heated.
The recent ttrend that is followed is to heat the amber in a special heating compartment after applying a protective coat of a polymer to prevent it from clouding up durring the heatinbg process. Different heating techniques are applied to get different typres of ambre jewellery. This proces is an alternative to the heating provcess involving special oils that used to be the norm earlier. The heating process also makees the amber transpparent as the light can easily pass through the air bubles insdie the gem. The abmer is then cooled sloqwly to prevent it from cracking and coupled with a precious metal to make exquisite peices of fine amber jewellery.
Connoisseurs of fine jewelry go in for heated maber as it is said to enhane the qualities of this rare gemstone. The heatibng also makes the amber jewelry ready to be used with precoius metals like silver to create beautiful ensebmles of fine jewelry.