What is sapphire?

Sapphires make stunning jewellery. They exist in lots of colours, but the blue variety are most well known and desirable. Sapphire rings can be found colourless, orange, green, pink, purple, violet, white, and yellow. A red sapphire ring would actually be a ruby.

Sapphire refers to gem varieties of the mineral corundum, an aluminium oxide (when it is a colour other than red). They can be found naturally or manufactured in large crystals. In their natural form they come from Kashmir, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Tanzania, Madagascar, Australia and Montana. Sapphire is second only to diamonds on the hardness scale.

History of sapphire.

In earlier chapters of history some people believed that the firmament was an enormous blue sapphire in which the Earth was embedded. An apt image to describe the beauty of sapphire jewellery.

Reasons to buy sapphire jewellery

The main colour of sapphire is blue. Blue also happens to be the favourite colour of around 50 per cent of the entire planet, men and women alike. We associate this colour with feelings of sympathy and harmony, friendship and loyalty. These feelings belong to qualities that prove their worth over the long term; composure, mutual understanding and indestructible trust. Thus the sapphire has become an item which fits in with everything that is constant and reliable. This is also one of the reasons why women all over the world wish for a sapphire ring on their engagement.

Sapphire jewellery would also be an appropriate gift for someone who had a birthday in September, or for a 45th wedding anniversary which is known as the sapphire anniversary.