Red Jasper Palm Stone Sandalwood matte to softly metallic

matte to softly metallic

The palm stone is a polished oval form designed for tactile contact in the hand

Khaleeji perfumery is built around it

The traditional Indian incense format - what the subcontinent burned long before bamboo-core sticks emerged from 19th-century industrialisation

Rhodonite - small tumble-polished stones of rose pink veined with black

Red Jasper Palm Stone Sandalwood matte to softly metallicRed jasper an opaque brick red chalcedony coloured through by iron, carved into seals and amulets since the earliest civilisations. Solid and earthy, with the heft of fired clay. From India, a palm stone. It is the opaque cousin of carnelian the same iron coloured chalcedony, but so densely included that no light passes, reading as deep, even terracotta sometimes crossed by darker veining. Its name descends through Latin and Greek from older words