Feldspar
Labradorite
- Mohs
- 6 – 6.5
- Colour
- Storm grey
- Every day
- With care
Feldspar
Labradorite
Pound for pound the most dramatic thing in the drawer. The flash — labradorescence — only appears within a narrow angle, so the stone has to be cut and then set the right way up or the effect disappears entirely. I orient it under a lamp before I make the bezel.
The facts
- Family
- Feldspar
- Hardness
- 6 – 6.5 on the Mohs scale
- Colour
- Storm grey, with flashes of peacock blue, green and occasionally gold
- Where hers come from
- Madagascar, Finland, Labrador
- What she pays
- £8 – £35 for a 10mm cabochon
- Everyday wear
- With care
What will damage it
Knocks, like all feldspar, and it cleaves in two directions. I will set it in a ring if you ask, and I will tell you it is a ring for good days rather than for gardening.
In a ring you wear daily
With care