Purple or Baked turquoise, what is it?

Question

i was out in arizona recently and i saw alot of what was being called "purple" or "baked" turquoise. I used to work for a gemstone company for 4 years and i had never seen or heard of it. can anyone tell me more about it????

Answer 1

hi there!

Well I am not a jewerly expert but I do make my own jewelry...and what is commonly known as "baked" is what I know as "placing the jewelry inside of something"...like baked inside...back in the 70's that was a common thing done with jewelry, people would collect precious items, say like seashells, or tokens or whatever that was little, and have them baked inside of a material that looks something like plexiglass ...as far as the purple part of that, I know that there is a gemstone they commonly refer to as "purple turquoise" and it looks similar to a "jade stone" ...you may find more on that if you search google..and if you do I would be interested if you find more out on that, since I do my own jewelry it would be cool to use something like that and to know how it is made... =) hope that helps ya!

Answer 2

It's blue and green mixed together perfectly separate from all other colors which are cut into tiny streaks, formed into cracks, formed into one solid piece with the turqoise, and as seen by the eye, the cracks are there to be careful not to make a solid gray, from all colors yet let them be perfectly blended. The stone is the turquoise to represent equality, the cracks are to represent light, which are streaks color shown through the stone. Baked turqoise in general may represent life itself. This is only a guess.

Answer 3

I think it is this phony stone made by baking turquoise-colored clay to imitate a gem. See the attached article on how to do that yourself.

Answer 4

Don't be a smartass, "skatergirl509".

It's basically reconstitued regular turquoise or dyed natural. Basically broken down and mixed with resin and red dye and is set. When it's hard it's cut into whatever.

Answer 5

yeah its a color