Amethyst

Amethyst is found all over the world in places like Mexico, Brazil, Canada, Uruguay, Africa, USA, Italy, Germany and Russia. Amethyst jewellery uses the rich purple colour of the stone to maximum effect. Traditionally, purple is the colour of royalty and Amethyst jewellery adorned only the rich and powerful. Today, amethyst is a much more affordable gemstone that we can all possess and admire. Amethyst jewellery can be fashioned in a number of different ways: faceted or polished into a cabochon for rings, pendants, earrings and cuff links or carved into violet petals for a pendant or earrings or into a cluster of grapes for a brooch. Amethyst is the gemstone for the month of February and the zodiac sign of Aquarius (21 Jan to 21 Feb)