Turquoise
Sky blue to green-blue, sometimes webbed with dark matrix, Turquoise has one of jewelry’s longest cultural histories. Important sources include Iran, the American Southwest, China, Egypt, and Mexico. ASANA links it with protection, wisdom, confidence, creativity, balance, abundance, strength, and courage, and recognizes it as a December birthstone.
Turquoise was already being used in ancient Egyptian jewelry thousands of years ago, making it one of the world’s oldest continuously admired ornamental gems.
